mealies

Yesterday my rations for the day were four biscuits and an ounce of coffee and of tea, with corn which they call mealies which I could not eat but which saved my horse's life.

Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 1917

Yesterday my rations for the day were four biscuits and an ounce of coffee and of tea, with corn which they call mealies which I could not eat but which saved my horse's life.

Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis 1917

Yesterday my rations for the day were four biscuits and an ounce of coffee and of tea, with corn which they call mealies which I could not eat but which saved my horse's life.

Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Richard Harding Davis 1890

He was growing three different varieties of grain: corn (a variety commonly called mealies, which could be plucked off the cob by the kernel and eaten or ground into a meal), mahango (to make the local beer or flour), and sorghum (dried and ground also into a type of flour).

The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

He was growing three different varieties of grain: corn (a variety commonly called mealies, which could be plucked off the cob by the kernel and eaten or ground into a meal), mahango (to make the local beer or flour), and sorghum (dried and ground also into a type of flour).

The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

She returns a few minutes later with a large plastic bag of corn on the cob, called mealies.

No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007

He was growing three different varieties of grain: corn (a variety commonly called mealies, which could be plucked off the cob by the kernel and eaten or ground into a meal), mahango (to make the local beer or flour), and sorghum (dried and ground also into a type of flour).

The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

He was growing three different varieties of grain: corn (a variety commonly called mealies, which could be plucked off the cob by the kernel and eaten or ground into a meal), mahango (to make the local beer or flour), and sorghum (dried and ground also into a type of flour).

The Elephant's Secret Sense Caitlin O'Connell 2007

I used to think "mealies" was a coined word for potatoes, but it really signifies maize or Indian corn, which is rudely crushed and ground, and forms the staple food of man and beast.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various

Near each wagon a light wreath of smoke steals up into the summer air, marking where some preparation of "mealies" is on foot, and the groups of grazing oxen -- "spans," as each team is called -- give the animation of animal life which I miss so sadly at every turn in this part of the world.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various