See acknowledge the corn on Wiktionary
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"text": "1859, J. Underwood, letter to the editor, Samuel W. Cole (editor), The New England Farmer, Volume 11,\nI should like to take a job of that kind on a wager with him, or any other New Hampshire man, and if I did not come out a little ahead on the \"home stretch,\" why then I would \"acknowledge the corn,\" and own myself beaten."
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