- corn-factor
- [ʹkɔ:n͵fæktə] n
торговец зерном
Новый большой англо-русский словарь. 2001.
corn-factor
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corn-factor — cornˈ dealer, cornˈ factor or cornˈ merchant noun A merchant who buys and sells corn • • • Main Entry: ↑corn … Useful english dictionary
corn-factor — noun A trader in grains. For years and years it had gone off in splendid style, as long as anyone could remember : even since Kate and Julia, after the death of their brother Pat, had left the house in Stoney Batter and taken Mary Jane, their own … Wiktionary
corn-dealer — cornˈ dealer, cornˈ factor or cornˈ merchant noun A merchant who buys and sells corn • • • Main Entry: ↑corn … Useful english dictionary
corn-merchant — cornˈ dealer, cornˈ factor or cornˈ merchant noun A merchant who buys and sells corn • • • Main Entry: ↑corn … Useful english dictionary
corn — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a any cereal before or after harvesting, esp. the chief crop of a region: wheat, oats, or (in the US and Australia) maize. b a grain or seed of a cereal plant. 2 colloq. something corny or trite. v.tr. (as corned adj.) sprinkled… … Useful english dictionary
Corn Laws — This article is about British Corn Laws. For the British Canadian trading act, see Canada Corn Act. The Corn Laws were trade barriers designed to protect cereal[1] producers in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland against competition… … Wikipedia
Corn Belt — Grain Belt redirects here. For the beer of the same name, see Grain Belt (beer). Production of corn in the United States. The Corn Belt is a region of the Midwestern United States where corn has, since the 1850s, been the predominant crop,… … Wikipedia
corn — {{11}}corn (1) grain, O.E. corn, from P.Gmc. *kurnam small seed (Cf. O.Fris., O.S. korn grain, M.Du. coren, Ger. Korn, O.N. korn, Goth. kaurn), from PIE root *gre no grain (Cf. O.C.S. zruno … Etymology dictionary
The Mayor of Casterbridge — Henchard on the way to the fair with Susan and Elizabeth Jane … Wikipedia
Bushnell — Recorded in the spellings of Bushell, Bushnell, Busswell, Bushel, Bishell, Bishwell, and other forms, this is an English surname of two possible medieval origins. It may be locational, and if so derives from a place called Bossall in North… … Surnames reference
Bussell — This interesting surname is of early medieval English origin and is a metonymic occupational surname for a corn merchant or corn factor, someone who measured out corn and other grains in bushels. The name derives from the Middle English buyscel … Surnames reference
