corn-factor

English

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Etymology

From corn +‎ factor.

Noun

corn-factor (plural corn-factors)

  1. (British) A trader in grains.
    • 1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “The Dead”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC, pages 216–217:
      For years and years it had gone off in splendid style as long as any one could remember; ever since Kate and Julia, after the death of their brother Pat, had left the house in Stoney Batter and taken Mary Jane, their only niece, to live with them in the dark gaunt house on Usher's Island, the upper part of which they had rented from Mr Fulham, the corn-factor on the ground floor.
    • 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 7, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
      "My name is Henchard; ha'n't you replied to an advertisement for a corn-factor's manager that I put into the paper - ha'n't you come here to see me about it?"

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