Definition of "cornstalk"
(botany) The tough, fibrous stalk of a corn (maize) plant, often ground for silage after harvest.
Quotations
As we all know, witches ride through the air on a broom, but sometimes their means of locomotion was a bulrush, a branch of thorn, mullein stalks, cornstalk, or ragweed, called fairies' horse in Ireland.
1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 267