corn factor


noun
  1. a person who deals in corn

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How to use corn factor in a sentence

  • If he has to pay the landlord according to a high average, and to be paid by the corn-factor according to a low one, he is undone.

  • When, after a sleepless night on the stove, he betook himself to the corn-factor's house, he found it barred and shuttered.

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  • As it was, the corn-factor's stick cut like a razor through the air, and made a most musical whirr within a foot of the Jew's ear.

  • To the shaft of each hung a little board, on which was painted in white letters, "Henchard, corn-factor and hay-merchant."

  • Donald's brightness of intellect maintained in the corn-factor the admiration it had won at the first hour of their meeting.