cornhole

Definition

A small room connected to a threshing floor.

Etymology

From corn + hole. (anus): From the old-fashioned practice of using dried corncobs instead of toilet paper in outdoor privies.

Example Sentences

• "The cornhole was a small, brick room opening off the threshing floor, about six or seven feet high, […] variously known as the cornhole or cornbin, and was designed for flail threshing, holding the grain until it was winnowed."
• "A small room may be found opening off the threshing floor on one side […] This is the cornhole, a mid-eighteenth-century development so far known only in Staffordshire and Suffolk, with a few in east Sussex."
• "Cornhole, the indigenous pastime of Cincinnati's west side, is basically a democratized version of horseshoes."