A dealer in corn or grain; a corn-merchant.
1699. Poor Man’s Plea, 8. Among the Corn-Factors.
1715. Lond. Gaz., No. 5344/4. John Bennet of London, Cornfactor.
1789. Windham, Lett., in Speeches Parl. (1812), I. 152. I am no corn-factor who am to profit by raising the price of grain.
1874. Lisle Carr, Jud. Gwynne, I. i. 27. Mrs. F. the Risborough cornfactor’s wife.
