corncob vs run up

corncob

verb
  • To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat. 

  • To disintegrate by the blades becoming severed from the axis 

noun
  • The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows. 

run up

verb
  • To run (towards someone or something); to hasten to a destination. 

  • To approach (an event or point in time). 

  • To accumulate (a debt). 

  • To thrust up, as anything long and slender. 

  • To make something, usually an item of clothing, very quickly. 

  • To take to a destination or before an authority. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see run, up. 

  • To rise; to swell; to grow; to increase. 

  • Of a bowler, to run, or walk up to the bowling crease in order to bowl a ball. 

  • To bring (a flag) to the top of its flag pole. 

  • To erect hastily, as a building. 

  • To string up; to hang. 

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