corn-cracker

Noun

 * 1)  A lower-class white person in the southern US.
 * 2)  An agricultural machine for removing the shells from corn.
 * 3) * 1847 August, The Prairie Farmer, Volumes 6-8, "Editor's Table", p. 261 (Google books):
 * A subscriber at Burnsville inquires for a corn cracker which he can work by attaching it to Warren's horse power. There is a corn cracker made here, but it is not a very superior machine.
 * A subscriber at Burnsville inquires for a corn cracker which he can work by attaching it to Warren's horse power. There is a corn cracker made here, but it is not a very superior machine.