(US, dated, mildly, _, derogatory) A lower-class white person in the Southern United States.
Our summons was answered by its owner, a well-to-do, substantial, middle-aged planter, wearing the ordinary homespun of the district, but evidently of a station in life much above the common "corn-crackers" I had seen at the country meet…
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(US, dated) An agricultural machine for cracking corn kernels.
1847 August, The Prairie Farmer, Volumes 6-8, "Editor's Table", [https://books.google.ca/books?id=Vn02AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA261&dq=%22corn-cracker%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4XAlVb_nIsnjsAWR-YFA&ved=0CFgQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=%22corn-cracker%22&f=false p…
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