Meaning

(UK, dated) A small room connected to a threshing floor..

Definitions by Sense

1. (UK, dated) A small room connected to a threshing floor.
2. (US, uncountable) A game similar to beanbag toss, popular in Ohio, in which a bag filled with corn feed is thrown into a hole.
3. (slang, vulgar) The anus.
4. (slang, vulgar) To have anal intercourse with; to penetrate anally.

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.

Cincinnatians, of course, know the true meaning of cornhole. The homegrown bag-toss game, which some suggest was even invented here, requires few tools: some beanbags, a box with a hole in it, and… well, that's it, really.

He'd just sent away two more guards from the women's side for having lesbian affairs with the prisoners, and one male guard who'd got caught cornholing colored boys.

Word Forms

• cornholes
• cornholing
• cornholed

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