Shotguns were loaded, corncribs made tight, stock zealously guarded.
"Greener Than You Think"
Ward Moore
The farmers' corncribs, if there is anything left in them, will suffer for the next week.
"A Lieutenant at Eighteen"
Oliver Optic
Must he vagabond forth again with the morning into a world of bucolic dawns, alarm-clock farmers, roosters, corncribs and mules?
"Kenny"
Leona Dalrymple