How to pronounce corn

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What corn means

verb

Most people know corn in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To preserve meat in salt or salty water

In a sentence: Grandpa showed us how to corn beef by soaking it in salty water for days.

Where it comes from: It is the same old word as corn, the grain, which once also meant any small, hard bit. Meat was rubbed with coarse grains of salt.

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