The metal
corncrib, for instance, is outfitted with a self-cleaning, sloped bottom--and brakes, stop and turn lights.
Deborah Barker argues that it is "symbolic that Temple's scene of degradation occurs at the hands of the white bootlegger/gangster in a
corncrib and with a corncob--the abject remains of the main ingredient in moonshine whiskey" (150).
Each summer, our neighbors used their empty
corncrib to house broilers.
When Trigger attacks Temple in the
corncrib, the scene again fades to black, and we hear her scream.
I went tothe barn, the
corncrib, and looked under the porch.
They were led to the water tank next to the
corncrib and turned out to pasture.
I sat for hours, no, days, in my old-fashioned slat-sided
corncrib,
Covering the walls, floor and ceiling of a restored
corncrib on his Aledo, Illinois, farm, the treasures speak more of a deep affection for the past than they do of great rarity or monetary value.
Two years ago we sold a small farm with a house, barn, henhouse, grain shed,
corncrib, workshop and other outbuildings.
The recommended size for a small
corncrib was 4 feet across the bottom with sides about 6 feet high and tapering outward to a width at the top of 6 feet.
The raccoons enjoy a shady spot by the creek, secure in a 5' x 10' x 6'
corncrib wire cage.
One of my early memories is of my dad in the
corncrib with a cold chisel and a big hammer cutting off the roadster from just back of the top bows to over the fenders, down to the sub-frame back of the fenders.