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cornlaw

cornlaw is the rare spelling of corn law.

Meaning of corn law

Noun

corn law (plural corn laws)

  1. (UK, historical) One of the tariffs and protectionist regulations on imported grain and other foodstuffs enforced in the United Kingdom from 1815 until their abolition in 1846.

Forms of cornlaw

pluralcornlaws

Questions about cornlaw

What is cornlaw the rare spelling of?
Cornlaw is the rare spelling of corn law.

Words near cornlaw in the dictionary

  1. cornkister
  2. cornkisters
  3. cornlage
  4. cornland
  5. cornlands
  6. cornlaw
  7. cornlaws
  8. cornless
  9. cornlike
  10. cornloft
  11. cornlofts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cornlaw (page history and authors); corn law (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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