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ˈthree-ˈcorner, a.
(stress var.)
Of or pertaining to three corners (quot. a 1548); having three corners, three-cornered, triangular.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 122 The Frenche kyng, perceiuyng this toune [Laigny], to be the thre corner key, betwene the territories of the Englishemen, the Burgonyons, and his awne. 1683Wood Life 3 Dec. (O.H.S.) III. 84 He pointed to the dore, and bid me ‘be gone’, with his three corner cap. 1902Marshall Metal Tools 38 Three-corner files are very useful for cleaning out the sharp corners of square holes,..for sharpening saw teeth, or for filing nicks in a piece of steel before breaking it off.
So three-cornerism (nonce-wd.), the fact or system of having ‘three-cornered’ constituencies; three-corner jack Austral. = three-cornered jack s.v. three-cornered a. 3; three-corner-ways, -wise advs., with three corners, triangularly.
1884Edin. Rev. Jan. 294 No diagnosis will discover *three-cornerism to be the cause of the disease.
1919G. E. A. Russell Wild Life in Bushland 32 Springing from the centre or core of each burr are three long spikes or prongs, often half an inch in length—an uninviting thing to sit upon. Most bushmen will recognise the seed—it is the Centralian-famed ‘*three-corner jack’.
1748H. Glasse Art of Cookery (ed. 3) ix. 199 Toast some thin Slices of Bread cut *three-corner ways.
1862T. A. Trollope Marietta I. xii. 228 Kerchief folded *three-cornerwise. |