The hands. [Compare Hamlet’s use of the phrase “pickers and stealers.”]
1827. Give us a shake of your corn-stealer; why, you look out in sorts, Dorcas.—Mass. Spy, Oct. 24: from the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle.
1857. I reckon I had a time of it with the old buck that made them things on my underpinin’, and on my corn-stealer, as they say out West.—S. H. Hammond, ‘Wild Northern Scenes,’ p. 167.
