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A stalk of Indian corn.

ternally, and having no distinction of pith, wood, and bark, as the rattan, the palm, the cornstalk.

The process of preserving fodder (such as cornstalks, rye, oats, millet, etc.) by compressing it while green and fresh in a pit or vat called a silo, where it is kept covered from the air; as the ensilage of fodder.

That which is fed out to cattle horses, and sheep, as hay, cornstalks, vegetables, etc.

A disease of cornstalks. See Corn fly, under Corn. Cout stones. See Chalkstone, n., 2.

Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birchen twig or a cornstalk.

To lay in a conical or other pile; to make into a large pile; as, to stack hay, cornstalks, or grain; to stack or place wood. To stack arms (Mil.), to set up a number of muskets or rifles together, with the bayonets crossing one another, and forming a sort of conical pile.