corning
USKORN-ing/ˈkɔɹnɪŋ/UKKAWN-ing/ˈkɔːnɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of corn.
Corning the brisket in brine for a week deepens its flavor.
Farmers once relied on corning to keep beef edible through the cold months.
Note
One -ing form serves several transitive verbs, so the object decides the meaning. With beef or brisket it is salt-curing; with a substance it is working it into grains; with livestock it is feeding them grain. An obsolete use meant making someone drunk, and in Jamaican and Multicultural London English slang it means riddling someone with shotgun fire, a sense to keep well away from the kitchen.
corning is a form of corn
corn, verb: To preserve meat by curing it with coarse salt. Full entry
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- corn → corning: add -ing
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