Meaning

1 senses
  1. (informal)An air-cooled multi-row radial piston aircraft engine

Origin

From the pistons resembling a cob of corn.

From the pistons resembling a cob of corn.

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Forms

plural: corncob engines
Singularcorncob engine
Pluralcorncob engines

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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