corncob

maissintähkä The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.
1858, w:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.|Oliver Wendell Holmes, s:The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table|The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The “Breakfast-Table” Series, George Routledge and Sons (1882), page http://books.google.com/books?id=XjYCAAAAQAAJ&q=corncob 23:

London is like a shelled corncob on the Derby day, and there is not a clerk who could raise the money to hire a saddle with an old hack under it that can sit down on his office-stool the next day without wincing.

Six years of persistent research at the Bureau of Chemistry of the Department of Agriculture, has resulted in establishing the fact that a number of interesting and useful by-products can be derived from the humble corncob.

He bit into a corncob, and Chisom watched him munch with his mouth open, his jaws working the corn like a mini grinding machine.