Plural of cornbink; dialectal or regional term for various wild plants or weeds found in cornfields.
From cornbink, likely a dialectal blend or corruption combining corn + an Old English element. Regional variants suggest folk etymology origin.
Cornbinks is a word that shows how regional dialects could be wildly different—the same plant might be a cornbink in one county and something entirely different ten miles away, before standardized agriculture.
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