cornern.¹

Brit.

/ˈkɔːnə/, U.S.

/ˈkɔrnər/

Forms: Middle English querner, quarner(e, Middle English cornere, cornyer(e, Middle English cornare, korner, 1500s cornar, Middle English– corner.

Etymology: Middle English corner, < Anglo-Norman corner = Old French cornier (masculine), corniere, cornere feminine < late Latin type *cornārium, plural *cornāria, < cornū horn: in medieval Latin cornerium, corneria.

I. generally.

a. The meeting-place of converging sides or edges (e.g. of the walls of a building, the sides of a box), forming an angular extremity or projection.

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the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angle or corner

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1292 Britton i. xxiii. §14 Un escu a iiii. corners.]

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 124 Þe uour tours ine þe uour cornyeres of þe house.

1382 J. Wyclif Psalms cxvii[i]. 22 The..hed of the corner.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21663 O four corner [Gött. querner, Coll. Phys. quarnere] þe arche was made.

c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 227 Sett vp the cornare of the wall.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxv. 202 The iiij cornyers of the table.

?a1500 Langforde Med. f. 2 b, in Lay Folks' Mass-bk. 179 After to go to þe Ryght cornar of þe Avter And þen after to goo to þe Lefte end of the Avter.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 209/1 Corner of the eye, coing doeyl.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1682) ix. 367 An Isle [Sicily] with corners three.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 91 The corners of the mouth.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in Poems (new ed.) II. 194 Long, ere the hateful crow shall tread The corners of thine eyes.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. x. 279 The corner of a window.

†b. An angle (in Geometry). Obsolete.

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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [noun]

anglea1398

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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. vii. 113 A corner is the towche and metynge of two lynes.

1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. def. The square angle, whiche is commonly named a right corner.

c. figurative. (Cf. angle n.² 2c.)

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1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. i. 22 Such society..rubs off the corners that give many of our sex an ungracious roughness.

1841–4 R. W. Emerson Manners in Wks. (1906) I. 213 Fashion..hates corners and sharp points of character.

†d. corner of the people: a prince or chief, a ‘corner-stone of the state’. (A Hebraism.)

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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun]

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1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Judges xx. 2 Alle the corneres of puplis [L. anguli populorum] and alle the lynages of Yrael.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. xiv. 38 Aplieth hidir all the corners of the puple.

1560 Bible (Geneva) Isa. xix. 13 They haue deceiued Egypt, euen the corners of the tribes thereof [1609 Douay, the corner of the peoples thereof].

e. within the four corners of (a document): (emphatic for) within the limits or scope of its contents.

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1874 J. Morley On Compromise 30 The spirit of the Church is eternally entombed within the four corners of Acts of Parliament.

II. A salient or projecting angle.

a. The place where two streets meet.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun]

wayleetOE

leetOE

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. vi. 5 As ypocritis, the whiche stondynge louen to preye in..corners of streetis, that thei be seen of men.

1391 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1882) I. 150 In Annesgate super le Corner ibidem.

1470 in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 246 Super angulum vocatum Skelgate corner.

1611 Bible (King James) Prov. vii. 12 Now is shee without, now in the streetes, and lieth in waite at euery corner .

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. vii. 154 With these borne before vs..Will we ride through the streets, & at euery Corner Haue them kisse.

1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot xvi At the corner of Long Acre.

b. to turn the corner: to pass round a corner into another road, street, etc.; to pass round the corner of a racecourse, esp. the last corner before the finish; (figurative) to pass a critical point or stage, to start recovering from an illness. So also to go or come round the corner. to cut off a corner: to take a short cut, so as not to go round a corner. Colloquial phrase (a)round the corner: (a) nearby; a short distance away; (b) at hand; about to occur or be realized; imminent.

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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [verb (intransitive)] > pass critical point or stage

to turn the corner1837

the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > recover or be healed [verb (intransitive)] > start recovering

to turn the corner1877

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iv. i. 29 S'bud Sir, away quickly, there's Fondlewife just turn'd the Corner, and's coming this way.

1710 W. Congreve Old Batchelor (rev. ed.) i. v, in Wks. I. 17 I see he has turn'd the Corner, and goes another way.

1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 375 That expression which I heard in the country..He has turn'd the corner, i.e. gone away, so as no more to be seen [= he is dead].

1807 J. Johnson Oriental Voy. 54 They make most excellent drivers, and think nothing of turning short corners.

1837 C. Dickens Let. 28 Jan. (1965) I. 229 I hope to find on Monday at 12 o'Clock, that you have turned the corner, and come back again.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxi. 334 The ham..was also from the German sausage-shop round the corner.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) ii. 8 ‘You're round the corner now,’ cried Miss Pecksniff.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House iii. 1 We went round the corner.

1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. i. 9 Those trumpery presents from Orley Farm were very well while he was struggling for bare bread but now, now that he had turned the corner,..he could afford to indulge his natural antipathy.

1863 L. M. Alcott Hospital Sketches v. 67 A secret conviction that pneumonia was waiting for me round the corner.

1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 189 Tourists, in their anxiety to cut off a corner, are sometimes induced to cross the valley.

1877 R. D. Blackmore Cripps xxxii For the present this young man (although he certainly had turned the corner), lay still in a very precarious state.

1914 F. Hurst (title) Just around the corner.

1925 W. J. Locke Great Pandolfo vii. 89 It's more or less only round the corner; but I see that you're walked enough.

1930 ‘I. Hay’ & P. G. Wodehouse Baa, Baa, Black Sheep i. i. 12 You never know what's waiting for you just round the corner in this world!

1959 Times Rev. Industry Jan. 67/2 Polypropylene has for so many months been ‘just-round-the-corner’ that [etc.].

1960 P. Willmott & M. D. Young Family & Class in London Suburb iii. 28 Couples..went on living ‘up the street’ or ‘round the corner’ from their parents.

1970 Guardian 15 Aug. 3/6 At the ‘self’ round the corner where I'd gone to buy soapflakes.

2015 Wag! (Dogs Trust) Summer 3/1 Thanks to the care and devotion of Glasgow's vet nurse..Rose has recently turned a corner in her recovery.

c. Horse Racing slang. the Corner n. Tattersall's betting-rooms; formerly situated near Hyde Park Corner.

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1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs x. 40 He is a regular attendant at the Corner.

1874 G. A. Lawrence Hagarene v. (Farmer) She heard how—without..making any demonstration at the Corner—the cream of the long odds against the Pirate had been skimmed.

a. An angular extremity at the junction of the sides or edges of anything; an angular projection, as a point of land running out into the sea.

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the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angular object > angular extremity or fragment

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a1330 Otuel 1591 A corner of otuweles scheld He gurde out amidde þe feld.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1185 A corner of þe cortyn he caȝt vp a lyttel.

1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Ij^v He discouered a corner or poynt of the sayd mayne land.

1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 54^v The fashion of hayl, is sometyme round..for falling from hygh, the corners are worne away.

1611 Bible (King James) Lev. xix. 27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou marre the corners of thy beard.

1712 E. Hatton Merchants Mag. 230 Creek..a crooked shoar, where two Corners of land extend themselves into the Sea at some small distance.

1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 200. ⁋7 Covered with a cloth, of which Prospero ordered his servant to lift up a corner.

b. The angular projections (or projection) on each side of a violin or other similar stringed instrument. Also corner-block.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > lute- or viol-type parts > [noun] > other parts

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1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 243/1 The Viol has..Square or obtuse corners... The Violin has..Acute corners.

1889 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 275/1 These corners mark the position of triangular ‘blocks’ inside, to which the ribs..are glued... Corner-blocks..first appear in the 15th century.

1968 New Oxf. Hist. Music IV. xiii. 710 A majority of viols..have sloping shoulders, C-shaped sound-holes,..and square corners at the bouts.

a. A corner piece broken off or remaining as a fragment.

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1881 A. Leslie tr. A. E. Nordenskiöld Voy. Vega I. 304 Their stock of provisions consisted of..a sack of corners, and fragments of ship biscuits.

b. The triangular piece cut from the ham or hind-end (the gammon) of a side of bacon.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > bacon > cuts or parts

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pea meal1933

1891 T. F. Garrett & W. A. Rawson Encycl. Pract. Cookery I. 63/2 Gammon with Corner, 14 lb.

1891 T. F. Garrett & W. A. Rawson Encycl. Pract. Cookery I. 63/2 Corner of Gammon, 4 lb.

1917 G. J. Nicholls Bacon & Hams 59 The gammon may also be cut into two pieces—a large corner and a large gammon hock.

1923 R. E. Davies Pigs & Bacon Curing 29 The side may be cut into three parts, comprising the fore end, the middle, and the gammon with corner.

III. A retreating hollow angle.

a. The comparatively small space included between sides or edges at their meeting-place; esp. between the sides of a room or building. to put in the corner, literally as a punishment for a child; †to put to a corner, to set aside, displace from precedency.

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the world > space > [noun] > intervening space > between sides or edges

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society > authority > punishment > other types of punishment > [verb (transitive)] > put in corner

to put in the corner1886

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxv. 24 Betere is to sitte in a corner of a roof.

c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 1052 I herde a grete noyse with alle In a corner of the halle.

1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 21 An huge dragoun..Sodeynly from a corner dede apere Of the presoun.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) liii. 179 To be mated in y^e corner [of the chessboard].

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. ii. 17 Hee doth keep you as an Ape doth nuttes, In the corner of his Iaw.

1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes I. §34 The heart of man is..so infinite in desire, that the round Globe of the world cannot fill the three corners of it.

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 27 The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens them.

17.. Foord Suppl. Dec. 464 (Jam.) After his father's decease, he entered in his dwelling house, and..put her to a corner.

1886 J. Payn Luck of Darrells xxxvii He allowed himself to be metaphorically whipped and put in a corner.

b. to drive into a corner: to force into a difficult position from which there is no escape; to drive into straits; to put in a ‘fix’ or in a ‘tight place’.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) in difficulty > force into a difficult situation > force into an inescapable position

to drive (also push) to the wall1546

to drive into a corner1548

corner1841

to box (a person, esp. oneself) into a corner1955

the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) in difficulty > force into a difficult situation

to tie to the stake1544

fix1736

to set up1747

corner1824

to drive into a corner1861

bunker1930

to get or have (a person) by the short and curlies1948

to box (a person, esp. oneself) into a corner1955

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. OOii All..carnall temptacions..ben suppressed, & in maner driuen to a corner.]

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xlvij To the intent that his armie should not bee included in a streight or driuen to a corner.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Angler, to shut vp in a corner, bring into a strait.

1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner vii. 115 ‘I don't want to act the constable,’ said the farrier, driven into a corner by this merciless reasoning.

1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xxxvi. 282 He had been driven into a corner by the pertinacious ingenuity of Miss French.

c. tight corner: see tight adj. 9.

a. transferred. A small, out-of-the-way, secluded place, that escapes notice or intrusion; ‘a secret or remote place’ (Johnson). done in a corner: done privily or covertly. hole and corner: see hole-and-corner adj.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] > a nook, corner

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xxvi. 26 Forsoth nether in a corner is ouȝt of these thingis don.

?a1400 Morte Arth. 1640 Lokez the contree be clere, the corners are large.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. ii. 34 Not in corners and holes only, but openly in all these places.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 4 Ryches hepyd in cornerys never applyd to the use of other.

1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (1625) i. 44 There was..no brothel-house but he haunted, no odde corner but he knew.

1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iv. viii. 475 What ever private contract may be transacted in corners betwixt the parties.

1717 A. Pope Epil. Jane Shore in Wks. 412 In some close corner of the soul, they sin.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) II. 198 The theory throws some degree of light upon a dark corner of the human mind.

1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars iii. 160 Such things were not done in a corner.

b. figurative.

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1836 J. Halley in Life (1842) 58 I have hit on a new plan of redeeming an odd corner of time.

1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. xiii. 302 Those quiet corners of history which are the green spots of all time.

c. to keep a corner: to reserve a small place.

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c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kij ^v Softe man and spare thou, a courner of thy belly.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 276 I had rather be a Toade..Then keepe a corner in a thing I loue, For others vses.

1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 48. 312 Malefactors..preserve as it were a Corner of their Souls for the reception of Pity.

1771 O. Goldsmith Haunch of Venison 100 ‘What the de'il, mon, a pasty!’ re-echoed the Scot; ‘Though splitting, I'll still keep a corner for that’.

7. Any part whatsoever, even the smallest, most distant or secluded (as no corner, every corner).

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the world > space > [noun] > defined or limited portion of space > any whatsoever

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1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQviii^v It shall leaue no corner of our soules..vnsertched.

a1571 W. Haddon in A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. (1576) 416 All mystes and fogges of ignoraunce, may be driven away out of all the corners of this kingdome.

1614 Bp. J. Hall Recoll. Treat. 821 All the world was theirs, scarce any corner ours.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 529 But first with narrow search I must walk round This Garden, and no corner leave unspi'd.

1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iii. 37 I turn'd; and try'd each corner of my Bed, To find if Sleep were there, but Sleep was lost.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 219 There was no corner of the kingdom in which the effect was not felt.

1886 ‘H. Conway’ Living or Dead xiv My friend must have seen every nook and corner in the house.

8. An extremity or end of the earth; a region, quarter; a direction or quarter from which the wind blows (obsolete).

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the world > the earth > region of the earth > [noun]

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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > direction from which wind blows

corner1535

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xciv. 4 In his honde are all y^e corners of the earth.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xi. C He shal..gather together..the outcastes of Iuda from the foure corners of y^e worlde.

1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries ii. 64 a The Souldiers helde a councell for their wages, whiche was promised them.. or els be brought into a better corner.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 98 Sits the wind in that corner ?

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iv. 28.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 155 In this corner of the world.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. ii. 39 Physitians from the four corners are called.

1704 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 4) i. 96 The Wind lying in that corner at least three quarters of the Year.

1724 J. Swift Let. to People of Ireland 22 We are perfectly safe from that Corner.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 19 We..were carried away with a continued Storm of Wind, from the same Corner, or near it.

1870 F. M. Müller Sci. Relig. (1873) 159 We find the ancient worship of the Aryan race carried to all the corners of the earth.

IV. Elliptical and technical uses.

9. A corner-dish for the table.

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1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance I. xiv. 157 Silver tureens and corners.

1824 S. Ferrier Inheritance II. xiv. 159 Her silver corners were very handsome.

10. A cap or guard used to protect the corner of anything; the leather covering of the corner of a half-bound book.

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11. Bookbinding. A triangular tool used in gold or blind tooling.

12. U.S. A mark placed at the angle of a tract which has been surveyed. Cf. corner-tree n. at Compounds 2.

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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveyor's marks

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1699 in Derby (Connecticut) Rec. (1901) 202 The southered corner is an ash tree.

1770 G. Washington Diary (1925) I. 428 I marked two Maples, an Elm, and Hoopwood Tree as a Corner of the Soldiers Ld.

1816 U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1916) 11 221 If the old original white oak Corner cannot be found establish a Corner there in lieu and in place of said White Oak.

1832 Louisville Directory 107 A knot of valuable surveys depended on one corner; Sodowsky, who had marked the survey, was called upon in court to identify the corner.

1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 173 We have frequently heard the old surveyors along the Ohio say that they often met with his [Col. Crawford's] corners..Every tract of land blazed by a claimant..[is] defined by what the surveyors call the corners.

13. Sport and Games.

a. Association Football. (In full corner-kick.) A free kick from the corner of the field obtained by the opposite side when a player sends the ball over his own goal-line.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres

holding1866

hand-balling1867

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header1875

handball1879

goal kick1881

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middle1899

clearance1920

cross-kick1927

cross-pass1929

body swerve1933

open goal1934

headball1936

chip1939

through-ball1956

wall pass1958

outswinger1959

cross1961

overlap1969

blooter1976

hospital pass1978

route one1978

sidefoot1979

top bin1999

ankle-biting2001

1882 Blackburn Times 1 Apr. 6/3 Then the besiegers had another corner kick, which, like its predecessors, proved fruitless.

1887 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 28 Mar. 4/5 Two corner kicks fell to them in quick succession.

1887 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 28 Mar. 4/5 Forty minutes from the start, a corner fell to the Preston men.

1887 M. Shearman Athletics & Football (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 340 If a player kick the ball over his own goal line, the opposite side have a ‘corner-kick’.

†b. Whist and Poker. (See quots.)

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1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. xiii. 321 If on any extraordinary occasion he ventured sixpence a corner at whist.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Corner, a point in a rubber at whist. We say we play sixpences or a shilling a corner, not sixpenny or shilling points.

1876 J. Miller Unwritten Hist. iv. 64 For the benefit of ladies..I may state that four aces in a game of poker make a ‘corner’ that cannot be broken.

1876 J. Miller Unwritten Hist. xii. 180 They fell into an exciting game of poker, at ten dollars a corner.

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c. four corners, a game: see four adj. and n.

d. Boxing. One of the two opposite angles of a boxing ring in which a boxer rests between rounds; hence, a boxer's second or seconds. Also attributive.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > ring > corner

corner1853

neutral corner1952

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer's second

second1743

bottle holder1787

handler1879

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1853 London Prize-Ring Rules in T. C. Wignall Story of Boxing (1923) 312 The combatants..shall retire until the seconds of each have tossed for choice of position, which adjusted, the winner shall choose as his corner..and conduct his man thereto, the loser taking the opposite diagonal corner.

1888 F. W. J. Henning Recoll. Prize Ring 159 Both men were assisted to their corners by their seconds.

1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 27 Dec. 2/7 I read some indignant articles on the unfairness of the Bruges prize fight... Of course the ‘corner’ [1937 corner-men] were Englishmen.

1896 J. C. Trotter Boxing xv. 96 On first entering the ring, the combatants take a seat in their corners and wait till the timekeeper calls ‘Time’.

1952 L. A. G. Strong Darling Tom 145 My corner was getting a bit suspicious.

e. Hockey. (In full corner-hit.) A free hit against the defending side made by one of the attacking side from the corner flag.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > [noun] > penalty hits

corner1897

penalty corner1907

short corner1967

1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 518/2 A good goalkeeper..should never hesitate to concede a corner when he can see no other opening.

1907 Hockey 22 Nov. 22/1 Just before half-time, Mid-Surrey broke away, and, forcing a corner, Nash put in an excellent shot from the corner hit.

1907 Hockey 22 Nov. 22/1 Before the end Simmonds scored from a penalty corner.

1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 344/1 From a corner the attacking side can only score a goal after the ball has been stopped dead or hit after it has struck or been played by a defender.

1961 F. C. Avis Sportsman's Gloss. 215/2 In Hockey, a corner is registered where a player deliberately puts the ball over his own goal line, or where he accidentally does so from a distance shorter than 25 yards from the goal line.

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a. Commerce. A speculative operation in which a combination or syndicate buy up the whole of any stock in the market, or the whole available supply of any commodity, so as to drive speculative sellers into a corner, by rendering them unable to fulfil their engagements except by buying of the combination of corner-men at their own price. Also figurative. (Of U.S. origin.)Sometimes applied to any combination to raise the price of an article by securing a monopoly; this is a development in which the primary meaning is lost sight of.

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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements

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recapitalization1874

short squeeze1877

split-up1878

margin call1888

pyramid1888

profit taking1891

pyramiding1895

underwriting1895

melon-cutting1900

round turn1901

market-making1902

put-through1902

put and take1921

round trip1922

put and take1929

leverage1931

split-down1932

switching1932

give-up1934

mark to market1938

recap1940

rollover1947

downtick1954

stock split1955

traded option1955

leg1959

stock splitting1959

rollover1961

split1972

spread betting1972

unitization1974

marking-to-market1981

swap1982

telebroking1984

society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > disreputable

poison pill1653

rig1826

cornering1841

wash-sale1848

washing1849

market-rigging1851

corner1853

watering1868

wreck1876

manipulation1888

wash1891

market mongering1901

matched orders1903

grey market1933

bond washing1937

warehousing1971

bed-and-breakfasting1974

dawn raid1980

1853 Captain Priest 249 He is the greatest of all men for a ‘corner’.

1857 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. July 135 When a party is made up to buy a large amount of stock, a larger..than is known to be at the time on the market, it is called a corner..Having inflated the market..they make a sudden call for several thousand shares of stock on their buyer's option, and then there comes a sharp time among the sellers, who are generally all short. This creates an active demand, and the clique sell their cash stock to the bears or shorts, who purchase at high rates for delivery at much lower prices to the very parties selling it.

1868 Chicago Tribune 1 Oct. The Corner of Corn.

1877 R. Giffen Stock Exchange Securities 49 A ‘corner’..is a Counter-rig to which a rig for the fall is liable.

1881 Daily News 14 Sept. 2/6 The league of spinners now being formed in Manchester and Oldham to check-mate the Liverpool ‘corner’.

1883 The American VI. 164 ‘Corners’ in railroad stocks or iron rails.

1889 Sat. Rev. 5 Oct. 377 The cotton corner in Liverpool..collapsed on Monday last.

1936 Language 12 200 The followers of Chomsky have no corner on nastiness.

1947 Time 27 Oct. 106/2 One of his exploits was the ‘Hale & Norcross corner’ in 1868, by which he got control of an important mine.

1949 Times 17 Nov. To make a corner in something is monopolistic, unethical and ill-bred.

b. dialect and slang. A share; esp. (a) in dialect phrase to stand one's corner: to take or pay for one's share of anything; to do one's share; (b) slang a share in the proceeds of a robbery.

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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > be involved in or have to do with something > play one's part

to play one's prize1565

to do one's stuff1663

to pull one's weight1878

to stand one's corner1878

the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] > of booty, spoils, or profits

fee14..

fleece1601

snappage1602

guile-shares1723

reg'lar1777

regular1811

share-out1864

corner1878

rake-off1887

split1889

tantième1897

cut1918

the mind > possession > taking > taken [verb (intransitive)] > take one's share

take one's whack1830

to stand one's corner1930

1878 J. Almond Bunch of Watercresses 21 Tom looked at his shirt to see iv id could be doctored..into doing duty for some o' th' missing articles..but he fun id wer hardly able to stan id own corner.

1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 273/1 Corner, (Thieves), a share—generally a share in the proceeds of a robbery.

1891 Standard 5 Mar. 2/5 (E.D.D.) He had arranged to meet the other two men to receive his ‘corner’ (the proceeds of the sale of the stolen property).

1930 E. Wallace White Face xix. 279 He supplied the various gangs [of bank-robbers] with information which enabled them to operate at a minimum risk. Usually he stood in for his corner.

1969 D. Clark Death after Evensong v. 129 Just in time to join in a buckshee last round with no chance of standing his own corner.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. literal (‘situated in or at a corner’).

corner-cupboard n.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > other cupboards or cabinets

Flanders chest1400

warestall1508

livery cupboard1571

boy1656

by-closet1696

corner-cupboard1711

India cabinet1721

pot-cupboard1789

housemaid's cupboard1843

monocleid1885

vargueño1911

console1925

cocktail cabinet1928

storage unit1951

1711 Post-Man & Hist. Account 8 Mar. 2/1 A Dutch Tablemaker..sells all sorts of..Tea Tables, Corner Cupboards and all manner of Japan Work.

1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) ii. vii. 120 A fleet of boats..were piled up with all kinds of household articles,..quaint corner cupboards.

1851 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 147 In each cell I saw a pretty little corner cupboard.

corner-gate n.

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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > gate

gatec1000

corner-gate1611

1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings xiv. 13 From the gate of Ephraim, vnto the corner gate .

corner-house n.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house in specific situation

townhouse1571

garden house1598

corner-house1693

wharf-house1698

notch house1825

suburban1856

twilight home1934

twilight house1971

townhome1976

1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour v. i. 49 Come along with me..to yond' Corner-house.

1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon II. ii. x. 135 He..stopped at a corner house.

corner-pew n.

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society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > pew > [noun]

stool1570

pew1631

corner-pew1663

1663 S. Pepys Diary 3 May (1971) IV. 121 Young Dawes, that sits in the new corner-pew in the church.

corner-piece n.

† corner-port n. Obsolete (= corner-gate n.)

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1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. xxvi. 9 And Osias buylded towres at Ierusalem vpon the cornerporte.

corner-seat n. (also figurative)

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1852 Illustr. London News 17 Jan. 51/3 The two corner seats at the top of the interior [of an omnibus].

1867 A. D. Whitney Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life v. 79 Mrs. Thoresby and Mrs. Linceford got inside the vehicle at once, securing comfortable back corner-seats.

1894 J. T. Taylor Veil Lifted 31 His thoughts had been..concentrated upon..securing a corner seat in a smoking carriage.

1940 L. MacNeice Last Ditch 21 Opposite in corner seats we hope for nearness.

1959 J. Braine Vodi x. 143 They had booked first-class corner seats to death, all of them.

corner-shelf n.

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1805 J. Austen Let. 27 Aug. (1995) 110 Nor need I be diffuse on the state of Lady Bridges's bookcase and corner-shelves upstairs.

1889 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Despot Broomsedge Cove xxii. 395 The quilts..were piled high on the ‘corner shelf’ which they had burdened of yore.

corner-table n.

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1924 M. Arlen Green Hat iv. 110 Nearby was a corner-table of eight young people.

1956 E. Grierson Second Man i. 32 The secluded corner table with the shaded lights.

b. figurative. (Chiefly with meaning ‘done in a corner’: see 6), as corner-contract, corner-meeting, etc.

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1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. ii. 40 These corner contracts, without consent of parents.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ff5 Casting a kinde of corner looke vpon him.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 40 They had their secret corner-meetings.

1619 W. Whately Gods Husb. (1622) ii. 44 Drag this corner-seeking..vice into the open view.

1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. Ep. 165 With corner-whisperings from house to house.

a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 134 Our corner-miching priests.

C2. Special combinations. Also corner-cap n., corner-stone n., etc.

corner-back n. in certain field sports (esp. American Football), (one playing in) a defensive position on the wing.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > types of player

side tackle1809

nose guard1852

rusher1877

goalkicker1879

quarterback1879

runner1880

quarter1883

full back1884

left guard1884

snap-back1887

snapper-back1887

running back1891

tackle1891

defensive end1897

guard1897

interferer1897

receiver1897

defensive back1898

defensive tackle1900

safety man1901

ball carrier1902

defensive lineman1902

homebrew1903

offensive lineman1905

lineman1907

returner1911

signal caller1915

rover1916

interference1920

punt returner1926

pass rusher1928

tailback1930

safety1931

blocker1935

faker1938

scatback1946

linesman1947

flanker1953

platoon player1953

corner-back1955

pulling guard1955

split end1955

return man1957

slot-back1959

strong safety1959

wide receiver1960

line-backer1961

pocket passer1963

tight end1963

run blocker1967

wideout1967

blitzer1968

1955 T. Doyle Lifetime in Hurling xx. 142 John Joe Doyle (Clare)..is my choice for left-corner-back.

1964 Sports Illustr. 5 Oct. 33/1 Rote..tried to throw to Split End Don Marton, who was being guarded by rookie Corner Back George Byrd.

1979 Southern Star (County Cork, Ireland) 29 Sept. 24/7 Behind them young Mick Murphy had been clinging leech-like to Ray Cummins while experienced corner-backs Jerry O'Sullivan and Ted O'Brien were also giving nothing away.

1986 Touchdown Apr. 39/1 So often the attention focusses on the cornerbacks who make the most interceptions.

corner-block n. (see quots.); (see also 3b above).

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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting blocks > for a bracket

pattress1886

corner-block1932

1932 F. L. Wright Autobiogr. ii. 138 The whole exterior was bedeviled..mixed to puzzle-pieces, with corner-boards, panel-boards, window-frames, corner-blocks.

1962 Gloss. Terms Glass Ind. (B.S.I.) 14 Corner block, specially shaped block used in the dog-house corners.

1966 A. W. Lewis Gloss. Woodworking Terms 18 Corner blocks, wooden blocks glued and screwed in position on the inside of a framework to strengthen the joint.

corner-boy n. (esp. in Ireland) = corner-man n. 2.

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] > frequenting streets

scamperer1712

corner-boy1855

plug-ugly1856

corner-cove1862

keelie1863

tough1866

larrikin1868

corner-man1885

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > frequenting streets

scamperer1712

sweater1712

corner-boy1855

plug-ugly1856

corner-cove1862

keelie1863

tough1866

larrikin1868

corner-man1885

voyoua1896

tsotsi1949

1855 D. G. Mitchell Fudge Doings (N.Y. ed.) II. 47 Presently the corner-boy, Jerry, comes in. He is a short-haired, half-Irish boy, [etc.].

1882 Standard 7 Sept. 3/4 The Dublin loafers, or ‘corner boys’, as they are called.

1886 Dublin Daily Express 5 Apr. In the Petty Sessions, Robert Nolan and James Kinsella, two corner boys, were charged with having committed a violent and unprovoked assault.

1888 G. M. Hopkins Let. 10 Feb. (1935) 274 Tramps, Cornerboys, Roughs, Socialists and other pests of society.

1946 J. Hampson in Penguin New Writing 138 Len and his Cardiff. corner-boy have been arrested for the robbery.

1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 May 262/3 A Labour M.P...visits the Territory of Wajingaland at the urgent behest of its seediest corner~boy.

corner-chisel n. a chisel with two rectangular edges for cutting the corners of mortises.

corner-cove n. slang = corner-man n. 2.

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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] > frequenting streets

scamperer1712

corner-boy1855

plug-ugly1856

corner-cove1862

keelie1863

tough1866

larrikin1868

corner-man1885

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > frequenting streets

scamperer1712

sweater1712

corner-boy1855

plug-ugly1856

corner-cove1862

keelie1863

tough1866

larrikin1868

corner-man1885

voyoua1896

tsotsi1949

1862 A. Halliday in H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 445/2 I mean by corner-coves them sort of men who is always a standing at the corners of the streets and chaffing respectable folks a passing by.

corner cutter n. a machine for cutting the corners of books, cards, etc.

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1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. Corner cutter. 1. A machine for cutting the corners off cards or books... 2. A machine for cutting out notches from blanks of cardboard, intended to be bent up to form boxes.

corner-cutting n. and adj. taking the quickest, easiest, cheapest, or most expedient course of action (see cut v. 21d).

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1960 V. Packard Waste Makers (1961) x. 105 Some of the breaking down undoubtedly resulted from simple corner-cutting or haste to get out a new model.

1961 M. McCarthy in Harper's Mag. July 51/2 Defective airplanes sold to the government by a corner-cutting manufacturer.

corner-dish n. a dish for the corner of the table.

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1796 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) v. 48 It is a pretty corner-dish for dinner or supper.

corner-drill n. a drill used in places where there is not room to use the ordinary brace-handle.

corner flag n. a flag marking a corner of the playing area of a football or hockey field; so corner-flag kick, a corner (sense 13).

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > [noun] > corner-flag

corner flag1882

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > [noun] > ground > corner-flag

corner flag1882

1882 Blackburn Times 1 Apr. 6/3 The first kick from the corner flag.

1887 M. Shearman Athletics & Football (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) App. 388 In no case shall a goal be scored from any free kick... The kick-off and corner-flag kick shall be free kicks within the meaning of this rule.

1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 420/2 The ball must be placed a yard from the corner-flag.

1958 Times 24 Nov. 3/2 Scoring by the right-hand corner-flag.

1960 E. S. Higham & W. J. Higham High Speed Rugby xvii. 242 The other forwards..will corner-flag to the open side.

corner-flag v. (intransitive) to run towards a corner flag.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > play rugby football [verb (intransitive)] > actions or manoeuvres

pack1874

heel1884

scrum1890

goal1900

drop1905

to give (or sell) the (or a) dummy1907

ruck1910

jinka1914

to drop out1917

fly-kick1930

scissor1935

quick-heel1936

short-punt1937

touch-kick1954

grubber-kick1958

peel1960

corner-flag1962

to chip and chase1970

box kick1977

1962 Times 26 Feb. 4/2 A dangerous dribble..was foiled by Jeeps's corner-flagging.

corner-forward n. Hurling (one playing in) an attacking position on the wing; an outside forward.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > hurling > [noun] > player > specific position

corner-forward1955

1955 T. Doyle Lifetime in Hurling xx. 144 Other corner-forwards whom I might easily have included are John Joe Callanan and Willie O'Donnell.

1979 Southern Star (County Cork, Ireland) 29 Sept. 24/1 As the rising shot sped goalwards the Barrs vigilant corner forward Eamonn Fitzpatrick rose high to flick it past the surprised Midleton defence.

corner-grocery n. U.S. a grocery, or a bar-room, situated at a street corner.

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1849 in Mrs. F. L. Adams Pioneer Hist. Ingham Co. (1923) 149 A little old ‘corner grocery’ building occupied the corner where Pratt & Millspaugh's block now stands.

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Corner-grocery, a grocer's shop on the corner of two streets, a favorite location for such establishments in American towns.

1862 Congress. Globe 7 July 3159/1 Without subjecting themselves to the charge of disloyalty by every corner-grocery politician in the land.

1870 ‘F. Fern’ Ginger-snaps 106 Tea to the working-girl, taken in this way, is like the ‘corner-grocery-drink’ to the working-man.

1890 G. W. Perrie Buckskin Mose (new ed.) i. 11 Carrying out tea and sugar..with other such necessaries and luxuries, from a corner-grocery.

1932 Atlantic Monthly CL. 141 She telephones to the corner grocery.

corner-hit n. (see sense 13e).

corner-house n. (a) (see sense Compounds 1a); (b) (with capital initials) one of a number of large restaurants in London owned by J. Lyons and Co., Ltd.

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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > other eating-houses

ordinary1590

chop-house1699

porterhouse?1730

steak house1762

beef-house1807

rotisserie1825

fish-shop1826

supper tavern1841

supper house1855

supper room1858

grill-room1883

teetotum1891

grill1896

bar and grill1903

corner-house1912

bistro1922

roadhouse1922

hot doggery1923

rosticceria1930

dinette1940

British Restaurant1941

drive-through1949

drive-up1956

sobaya1958

carvery1962

ouzeri1964

crêperie1967

steak restaurant1970

sushiya1970

steak bar1971

buka1972

kopitiam1979

bukateria1980

churrascaria1981

parrilla1981

Indian1982

theme pub1983

parrillada1984

restobar1992

1415 in W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 232 Fro the corner howse..vntill the garden.

1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 225 The corner house, at the ende of Bassinges hall streete.

1693 [see corner-house n. at Compounds 1a]. 1886 [see corner-house n. at Compounds 1a].

1912 C. Mackenzie Carnival xx. 200 Noisy tea-parties in..the Corner House, where ladies were not permitted to smoke and customers were kindly requested to pay at the desk.

1923 A. Huxley Antic Hay xii. 179 An acquaintance which ripened..over the tea-cups..on the fifth floor of Lyons' Strand Corner House.

1958 G. Greene Our Man in Havana v. vi. 260 We could meet at the Corner House for a cheap snack.

1963 V. Nabokov Gift v. 297 A white Pskovan-type church, which had recently grown up out of the corner house.

corner-kick n. (see sense 13).

corner-lot n. U.S. a plot of ground (with its block of buildings) at the corner of two streets or roads, having a frontage to each.

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1702 J. Logan in Corr. Penn & Logan (1870) I. 129 I have sold the corner lot next the Meeting-House for £115.

1816 Boston Selectmen 29 July The corner lot of the new street.

1863 Congr. Globe 28 Feb. App. 139/1 These early pioneers [in Colorado]..commenced laying off ‘corner lots’, and holding elections.

1868 Putnam's Mag. Jan. 24 No corner-lot banditti, Or brokers from the city.

1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West iii. 65 Every man..is hopeful as a millionaire if he have a few corner lots, and ten dollars in his pocket.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxxi. 68 To keep a store in a ‘corner lot’ is the ambition of the keen-witted lad.

1909 F. Norris Third Circle 104 Incidentally corner lots are desirable.

corner-mark n. U.S. a boundary-mark at a corner of a property; so.

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1690 in Duxbury (Mass.) Rec. (1893) 71 A stake & a heap of stones for the north east corner, where was the former corner mark of said land.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 343 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV These fragile corner~marks are strictly respected by the neighbors, and a case of trespass rarely occurs.

corner-post n.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > boundary mark > post > at a corner

corner-post1445

1445 Plea & Mem. R. Lond. Gildh. A. 71. m. 3b A wall..strecchyng..vnto a corner post standing in the southest Corner of the tenement.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 198 They make of yuory the very principals and corner posts of their houses.

1648 Charlestown Land Rec. in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1878) III. 11 A parcell of land lying within and between the upper corner post of the house.

1785 A. Ellicott in Life & Lett. (1908) 41 Joseph went with some Hands to enlarge the Pile of Stones about the Corner Post.

1946 F. D. Davison Dusty iii. 31 There might be a length or two of broken fence, or an old charred corner-post.

1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 58/3 Corner posts and strainer posts..require special moulds because of their size. Corner posts should measure about 6 in. × 6 in. × 6 ft. 6 in. long.

corner-stake n. also figurative

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1678 Oyster Bay Rec. I. 114 A lott of Land..rainging from ye corner stake.

1739 in 3rd Bk. Rec. Southampton (N.Y.) (1878) 16 They both of them accepted of ye division where they set ye corner stakes.

1873 E. Eggleston Myst. Metropolisville xi. 97 They sought first to guess out the line of a railroad; they examined corner-stakes.

1880 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 184 I then lay it down as a second corner-stake in our inquiry.

† corner-pie n. Obsolete ? a pie for the corner of the table.

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1638 W. Berkeley Lost Lady A knights daughter..that has not one commendable quality, more then to make a corner pye and a sallad.

corner-piece n. a piece (casting, tool, etc.) for strengthening or dealing with corners.

corner pillar n. Carriage-building see quot.

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1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. (Gloss.) 216 Corner Pillars, the corner framings of bodies.

corner-plate n. an iron angle-plate for protecting or strengthening the corners of anything.

corner-punch n. an angular punch for cleaning out corners.

corner-saw n. a saw for cutting off the corners of a block.

corner shop n. a shop at the corner of a street; hence, a small local shop (as opposed to a multiple store, supermarket, etc.).

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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > small shop > local

convenience store1902

duka1912

dairy1914

sari-sari store1925

café1957

corner shop1963

neighbourhood friendly1970

depanneur1975

kirana1979

1278–9 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Wills Court of Husting (1889) I. 37 [To Adam his son and Johanna his daughter a shop called] ‘La Cornereschoppe.’

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. i. sig. E Hee would shew well vpon a Habberdashers stall, at a corner shop rarely.

1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. v. 20 The wine-shop was a corner shop.

1963 P. Willmott Evol. Community x. 125 Small, really local pubs and corner shops have found no place in most post-war plans.

1966 Guardian 11 May 4/7 The corner shop is lagging behind the supermarket in hygiene and clean food standards.

1970 ‘C. Fremlin’ Don't go to Sleep 74 It was a dead street. There were no corner shops, no prams.

corner-tile n. a tile used for capping the hip of a roof, a hip-tile.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > tile > [noun] > for roofing > for hip

hip tile1363

corner-tile1477

1477 Act 17 Edw. IV c. 3 Roftile ou crestile cornertile & guttertile.

1659 T. Willsford Architectonice 17 The corner tyles have their upper angles acute, with pinholes in them.

1726 R. Neve City & Country Purchaser (ed. 2) Hip-Tyles, Corner-Tyles. These are to lie on the Hips, or Corners of Roofs.

corner-tooth n. (see quot.).

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1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Corner-teeth of a Horse are the four teeth between the middling teeth and the tushes; two above and two below, on each side of the jaw, which shoot when the horse is four years and a half old. Farrier's Dict.

corner-tree n. U.S. a tree which marks the corner of a surveyed tract.

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1661 Portsmouth Rec. 108 That the lotters are to run the line..from Corner tree to Corner tree.

1786 G. Washington Diaries III. 55 Not having Hough's field Notes, and no Corner trees being noted in His Plat, I did not attempt to look for lines.

1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase xii. 87 We began to look through the legal blazes to espy a corner tree cut and notched in a peculiar way.

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Corner-trees. See Witness-trees.

1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Corner-trees, trees which mark the boundary lines of homesteads, claims, etc.

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corner throw n. (a) (in water polo and handball) a free throw of the ball for the attacking side from (near) the corner of the playing area; (b) Judo = sumi-gaeshi n. [In sense (b) after Japanese sumi-gaeshi sumi-gaeshi n.]

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > martial arts > [noun] > judo or ju-jitsu > actions or positions

armlock1841

hip throw1850

neck lock1876

breakfall1906

sutemi-waza1906

tomoe-nage1906

tsurikomi-goshi1906

uchimata1906

uki-goshi1906

uki-otoshi1906

ura-nage1906

corner throw1911

sumi-gaeshi1918

yoko-shiho-gatame1918

kesa-gatame1932

o-goshi1932

osaekomi-waza1932

seoi nage1932

take-down1939

harai goshi1941

osae-waza1941

tsukuri1941

uki-waza1941

body drop1948

tsurikomi-ashi1948

jigotai1950

kuzushi1950

tai-otoshi1950

tsugi ashi1950

hold-down1954

reaping1954

shime-waza1954

ude-garami1954

ude-gatame1954

uki-gatame1954

osotogari1956

shoulder throw1956

tsurikomi1956

ukemi1956

reap1968

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 385 Any player [sc. in water polo] throwing the ball over his own goal line concedes a corner throw to the other side.

1918 K. Yamanaka Jiu-jutsu 118 Corner throw. This trick was called tsuri-otoshi until the name was changed to Sumigayeshi in 1905.

1989 B. Caffary Judo Handbk. 94 Sumi-gaeshi is exactly what it is called—a corner throw—because the technique begins by breaking an opponent's balance to a front corner and then following through with action which propels him over your head in that same corner.

2019 Herald (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 29 Jan. This was the first tournament at which Fina's changes to water polo rules were applied at school level... The amendments to the rules pertain to substitutions, free throws, corner throws, ordinary fouls and penalty fouls.

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单词	corner
释义	cornern.¹ Brit. /ˈkɔːnə/, U.S. /ˈkɔrnər/ Forms: Middle English querner, quarner(e, Middle English cornere, cornyer(e, Middle English cornare, korner, 1500s cornar, Middle English– corner. Etymology: Middle English corner, < Anglo-Norman corner = Old French cornier (masculine), corniere, cornere feminine < late Latin type cornārium, plural cornāria, < cornū horn: in medieval Latin cornerium, corneria. I. generally. 1. a. The meeting-place of converging sides or edges (e.g. of the walls of a building, the sides of a box), forming an angular extremity or projection. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angle or corner hirnec897 corner1340 cantlec1350 anglea1398 nooka1400 cornelc1420 coin1545 quoin1838 quain1868 1292 Britton i. xxiii. §14 Un escu a iiii. corners.] 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 124 Þe uour tours ine þe uour cornyeres of þe house. 1382 J. Wyclif Psalms cxvii[i]. 22 The..hed of the corner. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21663 O four corner [Gött. querner, Coll. Phys. quarnere] þe arche was made. c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 227 Sett vp the cornare of the wall. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxv. 202 The iiij cornyers of the table. ?a1500 Langforde Med. f. 2 b, in Lay Folks' Mass-bk. 179 After to go to þe Ryght cornar of þe Avter And þen after to goo to þe Lefte end of the Avter. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 209/1 Corner of the eye, coing doeyl. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1682) ix. 367 An Isle [Sicily] with corners three. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 91 The corners of the mouth. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Will Waterproof's Monologue in Poems (new ed.) II. 194 Long, ere the hateful crow shall tread The corners of thine eyes. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. x. 279 The corner of a window. †b. An angle (in Geometry). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > angle > [noun] anglea1398 corner1398 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. vii. 113 A corner is the towche and metynge of two lynes. 1551 R. Record Pathway to Knowl. i. def. The square angle, whiche is commonly named a right corner. c. figurative. (Cf. angle n.² 2c.) ΚΠ 1766 J. Fordyce Serm. Young Women I. i. 22 Such society..rubs off the corners that give many of our sex an ungracious roughness. 1841–4 R. W. Emerson Manners in Wks. (1906) I. 213 Fashion..hates corners and sharp points of character. †d. corner of the people: a prince or chief, a ‘corner-stone of the state’. (A Hebraism.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] waldendeOE prince?c1225 ordainerc1300 tyranta1340 prefecta1382 rulera1382 wieldera1382 corner of the people1382 lordshipperc1384 governora1393 moderatora1398 wieldinga1400 leader of lawsc1400 regent1415 governailc1440 dominatorc1450 reignera1464 regnanta1500 gubernator1522 despot1562 shepherd1577 swayer1598 Sophy1599 most mastera1616 Govr.1620 Gov.1630 archon1735 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Judges xx. 2 Alle the corneres of puplis [L. anguli populorum] and alle the lynages of Yrael. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Sam. xiv. 38 Aplieth hidir all the corners of the puple. 1560 Bible (Geneva) Isa. xix. 13 They haue deceiued Egypt, euen the corners of the tribes thereof [1609 Douay, the corner of the peoples thereof]. e. within the four corners of (a document): (emphatic for) within the limits or scope of its contents. ΚΠ 1874 J. Morley On Compromise 30 The spirit of the Church is eternally entombed within the four corners of Acts of Parliament. II. A salient or projecting angle. 2. a. The place where two streets meet. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > junction of roads, paths, or tracks > [noun] wayleetOE leetOE cornerc1384 cornelc1420 three-went way1787 infall1895 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. vi. 5 As ypocritis, the whiche stondynge louen to preye in..corners of streetis, that thei be seen of men. 1391 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1882) I. 150 In Annesgate super le Corner ibidem. 1470 in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 246 Super angulum vocatum Skelgate corner. 1611 Bible (King James) Prov. vii. 12 Now is shee without, now in the streetes, and lieth in waite at euery corner . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iv. vii. 154 With these borne before vs..Will we ride through the streets, & at euery Corner Haue them kisse. View more context for this quotation 1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot xvi At the corner of Long Acre. b. to turn the corner: to pass round a corner into another road, street, etc.; to pass round the corner of a racecourse, esp. the last corner before the finish; (figurative) to pass a critical point or stage, to start recovering from an illness. So also to go or come round the corner. to cut off a corner: to take a short cut, so as not to go round a corner. Colloquial phrase (a)round the corner: (a) nearby; a short distance away; (b) at hand; about to occur or be realized; imminent. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [verb (intransitive)] > pass critical point or stage to turn the corner1837 the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > recover or be healed [verb (intransitive)] > start recovering to turn the corner1877 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour iv. i. 29 S'bud Sir, away quickly, there's Fondlewife just turn'd the Corner, and's coming this way. 1710 W. Congreve Old Batchelor (rev. ed.) i. v, in Wks. I. 17 I see he has turn'd the Corner, and goes another way. 1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) 375 That expression which I heard in the country..He has turn'd the corner, i.e. gone away, so as no more to be seen [= he is dead]. 1807 J. Johnson Oriental Voy. 54 They make most excellent drivers, and think nothing of turning short corners. 1837 C. Dickens Let. 28 Jan. (1965) I. 229 I hope to find on Monday at 12 o'Clock, that you have turned the corner, and come back again. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxi. 334 The ham..was also from the German sausage-shop round the corner. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) ii. 8 ‘You're round the corner now,’ cried Miss Pecksniff. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House iii. 1 We went round the corner. 1861 A. Trollope Orley Farm (1862) I. i. 9 Those trumpery presents from Orley Farm were very well while he was struggling for bare bread but now, now that he had turned the corner,..he could afford to indulge his natural antipathy. 1863 L. M. Alcott Hospital Sketches v. 67 A secret conviction that pneumonia was waiting for me round the corner. 1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 189 Tourists, in their anxiety to cut off a corner, are sometimes induced to cross the valley. 1877 R. D. Blackmore Cripps xxxii For the present this young man (although he certainly had turned the corner), lay still in a very precarious state. 1914 F. Hurst (title) Just around the corner. 1925 W. J. Locke Great Pandolfo vii. 89 It's more or less only round the corner; but I see that you're walked enough. 1930 ‘I. Hay’ & P. G. Wodehouse Baa, Baa, Black Sheep i. i. 12 You never know what's waiting for you just round the corner in this world! 1959 Times Rev. Industry Jan. 67/2 Polypropylene has for so many months been ‘just-round-the-corner’ that [etc.]. 1960 P. Willmott & M. D. Young Family & Class in London Suburb iii. 28 Couples..went on living ‘up the street’ or ‘round the corner’ from their parents. 1970 Guardian 15 Aug. 3/6 At the ‘self’ round the corner where I'd gone to buy soapflakes. 2015 Wag! (Dogs Trust) Summer 3/1 Thanks to the care and devotion of Glasgow's vet nurse..Rose has recently turned a corner in her recovery. c. Horse Racing slang. the Corner n. Tattersall's betting-rooms; formerly situated near Hyde Park Corner. ΚΠ 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs x. 40 He is a regular attendant at the Corner. 1874 G. A. Lawrence Hagarene v. (Farmer) She heard how—without..making any demonstration at the Corner—the cream of the long odds against the Pirate had been skimmed. 3. a. An angular extremity at the junction of the sides or edges of anything; an angular projection, as a point of land running out into the sea. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > [noun] > angular object > angular extremity or fragment cornera1330 nookc1380 crook1417 angle1582 a1330 Otuel 1591 A corner of otuweles scheld He gurde out amidde þe feld. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1185 A corner of þe cortyn he caȝt vp a lyttel. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Ij^v He discouered a corner or poynt of the sayd mayne land. 1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iv. f. 54^v The fashion of hayl, is sometyme round..for falling from hygh, the corners are worne away. 1611 Bible (King James) Lev. xix. 27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou marre the corners of thy beard. View more context for this quotation 1712 E. Hatton Merchants Mag. 230 Creek..a crooked shoar, where two Corners of land extend themselves into the Sea at some small distance. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 200. ⁋7 Covered with a cloth, of which Prospero ordered his servant to lift up a corner. b. The angular projections (or projection) on each side of a violin or other similar stringed instrument. Also corner-block. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > stringed instruments > lute- or viol-type parts > [noun] > other parts rib1578 rose1597 sound-hole1611 sound-post1688 purfle1706 bass-bar1833 purfling1833 sounding-post1838 corner1888 bout1889 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 243/1 The Viol has..Square or obtuse corners... The Violin has..Acute corners. 1889 G. Grove Dict. Music IV. 275/1 These corners mark the position of triangular ‘blocks’ inside, to which the ribs..are glued... Corner-blocks..first appear in the 15th century. 1968 New Oxf. Hist. Music IV. xiii. 710 A majority of viols..have sloping shoulders, C-shaped sound-holes,..and square corners at the bouts. 4. a. A corner piece broken off or remaining as a fragment. ΚΠ 1881 A. Leslie tr. A. E. Nordenskiöld Voy. Vega I. 304 Their stock of provisions consisted of..a sack of corners, and fragments of ship biscuits. b. The triangular piece cut from the ham or hind-end (the gammon) of a side of bacon. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > bacon > cuts or parts bandc1394 bacon-flitch1462 flickle1546 rasher1584 gammon1633 flitchen1658 hock1706 middle1859 shoulder-piece1888 corner1891 lachsschinken1901 eye1904 pea meal1933 1891 T. F. Garrett & W. A. Rawson Encycl. Pract. Cookery I. 63/2 Gammon with Corner, 14 lb. 1891 T. F. Garrett & W. A. Rawson Encycl. Pract. Cookery I. 63/2 Corner of Gammon, 4 lb. 1917 G. J. Nicholls Bacon & Hams 59 The gammon may also be cut into two pieces—a large corner and a large gammon hock. 1923 R. E. Davies Pigs & Bacon Curing 29 The side may be cut into three parts, comprising the fore end, the middle, and the gammon with corner. III. A retreating hollow angle. 5. a. The comparatively small space included between sides or edges at their meeting-place; esp. between the sides of a room or building. to put in the corner, literally as a punishment for a child; †to put to a corner, to set aside, displace from precedency. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [noun] > intervening space > between sides or edges cornera1382 society > authority > punishment > other types of punishment > [verb (transitive)] > put in corner to put in the corner1886 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xxv. 24 Betere is to sitte in a corner of a roof. c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame iii. 1052 I herde a grete noyse with alle In a corner of the halle. 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys (1835) 21 An huge dragoun..Sodeynly from a corner dede apere Of the presoun. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) liii. 179 To be mated in y^e corner [of the chessboard]. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. ii. 17 Hee doth keep you as an Ape doth nuttes, In the corner of his Iaw. 1605 Bp. J. Hall Medit. & Vowes I. §34 The heart of man is..so infinite in desire, that the round Globe of the world cannot fill the three corners of it. 1785 W. Cowper Task v. 27 The cattle mourn in corners where the fence Screens them. 17.. Foord Suppl. Dec. 464 (Jam.) After his father's decease, he entered in his dwelling house, and..put her to a corner. 1886 J. Payn Luck of Darrells xxxvii He allowed himself to be metaphorically whipped and put in a corner. b. to drive into a corner: to force into a difficult position from which there is no escape; to drive into straits; to put in a ‘fix’ or in a ‘tight place’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) in difficulty > force into a difficult situation > force into an inescapable position to drive (also push) to the wall1546 to drive into a corner1548 corner1841 to box (a person, esp. oneself) into a corner1955 the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) in difficulty > force into a difficult situation to tie to the stake1544 fix1736 to set up1747 corner1824 to drive into a corner1861 bunker1930 to get or have (a person) by the short and curlies1948 to box (a person, esp. oneself) into a corner1955 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. OOii All..carnall temptacions..ben suppressed, & in maner driuen to a corner.] 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xlvij To the intent that his armie should not bee included in a streight or driuen to a corner. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Angler, to shut vp in a corner, bring into a strait. 1861 ‘G. Eliot’ Silas Marner vii. 115 ‘I don't want to act the constable,’ said the farrier, driven into a corner by this merciless reasoning. 1869 A. Trollope He knew he was Right I. xxxvi. 282 He had been driven into a corner by the pertinacious ingenuity of Miss French. c. tight corner: see tight adj. 9. 6. a. transferred. A small, out-of-the-way, secluded place, that escapes notice or intrusion; ‘a secret or remote place’ (Johnson). done in a corner: done privily or covertly. hole and corner: see hole-and-corner adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] > a nook, corner haleeOE hirnec897 halkea1300 cornerc1384 nookc1450 hele?1527 creek1573 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xxvi. 26 Forsoth nether in a corner is ouȝt of these thingis don. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 1640 Lokez the contree be clere, the corners are large. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. ii. 34 Not in corners and holes only, but openly in all these places. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 4 Ryches hepyd in cornerys never applyd to the use of other. 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (1625) i. 44 There was..no brothel-house but he haunted, no odde corner but he knew. 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iv. viii. 475 What ever private contract may be transacted in corners betwixt the parties. 1717 A. Pope Epil. Jane Shore in Wks. 412 In some close corner of the soul, they sin. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) II. 198 The theory throws some degree of light upon a dark corner of the human mind. 1888 A. Jessopp Coming of Friars iii. 160 Such things were not done in a corner. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1836 J. Halley in Life (1842) 58 I have hit on a new plan of redeeming an odd corner of time. 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. xiii. 302 Those quiet corners of history which are the green spots of all time. c. to keep a corner: to reserve a small place. ΚΠ c1530 A. Barclay Egloges ii. sig. Kij ^v Softe man and spare thou, a courner of thy belly. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 276 I had rather be a Toade..Then keepe a corner in a thing I loue, For others vses. View more context for this quotation 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 48. 312 Malefactors..preserve as it were a Corner of their Souls for the reception of Pity. 1771 O. Goldsmith Haunch of Venison 100 ‘What the de'il, mon, a pasty!’ re-echoed the Scot; ‘Though splitting, I'll still keep a corner for that’. 7. Any part whatsoever, even the smallest, most distant or secluded (as no corner, every corner). ΘΚΠ the world > space > [noun] > defined or limited portion of space > any whatsoever corner1526 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQviii^v It shall leaue no corner of our soules..vnsertched. a1571 W. Haddon in A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. (1576) 416 All mystes and fogges of ignoraunce, may be driven away out of all the corners of this kingdome. 1614 Bp. J. Hall Recoll. Treat. 821 All the world was theirs, scarce any corner ours. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 529 But first with narrow search I must walk round This Garden, and no corner leave unspi'd. View more context for this quotation 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iii. 37 I turn'd; and try'd each corner of my Bed, To find if Sleep were there, but Sleep was lost. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 219 There was no corner of the kingdom in which the effect was not felt. 1886 ‘H. Conway’ Living or Dead xiv My friend must have seen every nook and corner in the house. 8. An extremity or end of the earth; a region, quarter; a direction or quarter from which the wind blows (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > region of the earth > [noun] endc893 earthOE coastc1315 plagea1382 provincea1382 regiona1382 countrya1387 partya1387 climatea1398 partc1400 nookc1450 corner1535 subregion1559 parcel1582 quart1590 climature1604 latitudea1640 area1671 district1712 zone1829 natural region1888 sector1943 the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > direction from which wind blows corner1535 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xciv. 4 In his honde are all y^e corners of the earth. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xi. C He shal..gather together..the outcastes of Iuda from the foure corners of y^e worlde. 1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries ii. 64 a The Souldiers helde a councell for their wages, whiche was promised them.. or els be brought into a better corner. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 98 Sits the wind in that corner ? View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. iv. 28. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 155 In this corner of the world. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot ii. ii. 39 Physitians from the four corners are called. 1704 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 4) i. 96 The Wind lying in that corner at least three quarters of the Year. 1724 J. Swift Let. to People of Ireland 22 We are perfectly safe from that Corner. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 19 We..were carried away with a continued Storm of Wind, from the same Corner, or near it. 1870 F. M. Müller Sci. Relig. (1873) 159 We find the ancient worship of the Aryan race carried to all the corners of the earth. IV. Elliptical and technical uses. 9. A corner-dish for the table. ΚΠ 1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance I. xiv. 157 Silver tureens and corners. 1824 S. Ferrier Inheritance II. xiv. 159 Her silver corners were very handsome. 10. A cap or guard used to protect the corner of anything; the leather covering of the corner of a half-bound book. Categories » 11. Bookbinding. A triangular tool used in gold or blind tooling. 12. U.S. A mark placed at the angle of a tract which has been surveyed. Cf. corner-tree n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveyor's marks corner1699 benchmark1826 turning-point1891 1699 in Derby (Connecticut) Rec. (1901) 202 The southered corner is an ash tree. 1770 G. Washington Diary (1925) I. 428 I marked two Maples, an Elm, and Hoopwood Tree as a Corner of the Soldiers Ld. 1816 U. Brown Jrnl. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1916) 11 221 If the old original white oak Corner cannot be found establish a Corner there in lieu and in place of said White Oak. 1832 Louisville Directory 107 A knot of valuable surveys depended on one corner; Sodowsky, who had marked the survey, was called upon in court to identify the corner. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 173 We have frequently heard the old surveyors along the Ohio say that they often met with his [Col. Crawford's] corners..Every tract of land blazed by a claimant..[is] defined by what the surveyors call the corners. 13. Sport and Games. a. Association Football. (In full corner-kick.) A free kick from the corner of the field obtained by the opposite side when a player sends the ball over his own goal-line. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres holding1866 hand-balling1867 left-footer1874 header1875 handball1879 goal kick1881 corner1882 spot kick1884 middle1899 clearance1920 cross-kick1927 cross-pass1929 body swerve1933 open goal1934 headball1936 chip1939 through-ball1956 wall pass1958 outswinger1959 cross1961 overlap1969 blooter1976 hospital pass1978 route one1978 sidefoot1979 top bin1999 ankle-biting2001 1882 Blackburn Times 1 Apr. 6/3 Then the besiegers had another corner kick, which, like its predecessors, proved fruitless. 1887 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 28 Mar. 4/5 Two corner kicks fell to them in quick succession. 1887 Sporting Life (Philadelphia) 28 Mar. 4/5 Forty minutes from the start, a corner fell to the Preston men. 1887 M. Shearman Athletics & Football (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) 340 If a player kick the ball over his own goal line, the opposite side have a ‘corner-kick’. †b. Whist and Poker. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well III. xiii. 321 If on any extraordinary occasion he ventured sixpence a corner at whist. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Corner, a point in a rubber at whist. We say we play sixpences or a shilling a corner, not sixpenny or shilling points. 1876 J. Miller Unwritten Hist. iv. 64 For the benefit of ladies..I may state that four aces in a game of poker make a ‘corner’ that cannot be broken. 1876 J. Miller Unwritten Hist. xii. 180 They fell into an exciting game of poker, at ten dollars a corner. Categories » c. four corners, a game: see four adj. and n. d. Boxing. One of the two opposite angles of a boxing ring in which a boxer rests between rounds; hence, a boxer's second or seconds. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > ring > corner corner1853 neutral corner1952 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > [noun] > boxer's second second1743 bottle holder1787 handler1879 corner1952 1853 London Prize-Ring Rules in T. C. Wignall Story of Boxing (1923) 312 The combatants..shall retire until the seconds of each have tossed for choice of position, which adjusted, the winner shall choose as his corner..and conduct his man thereto, the loser taking the opposite diagonal corner. 1888 F. W. J. Henning Recoll. Prize Ring 159 Both men were assisted to their corners by their seconds. 1889 G. B. Shaw in Star 27 Dec. 2/7 I read some indignant articles on the unfairness of the Bruges prize fight... Of course the ‘corner’ [1937 corner-men] were Englishmen. 1896 J. C. Trotter Boxing xv. 96 On first entering the ring, the combatants take a seat in their corners and wait till the timekeeper calls ‘Time’. 1952 L. A. G. Strong Darling Tom 145 My corner was getting a bit suspicious. e. Hockey. (In full corner-hit.) A free hit against the defending side made by one of the attacking side from the corner flag. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > [noun] > penalty hits corner1897 penalty corner1907 short corner1967 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 518/2 A good goalkeeper..should never hesitate to concede a corner when he can see no other opening. 1907 Hockey 22 Nov. 22/1 Just before half-time, Mid-Surrey broke away, and, forcing a corner, Nash put in an excellent shot from the corner hit. 1907 Hockey 22 Nov. 22/1 Before the end Simmonds scored from a penalty corner. 1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 344/1 From a corner the attacking side can only score a goal after the ball has been stopped dead or hit after it has struck or been played by a defender. 1961 F. C. Avis Sportsman's Gloss. 215/2 In Hockey, a corner is registered where a player deliberately puts the ball over his own goal line, or where he accidentally does so from a distance shorter than 25 yards from the goal line. 14. a. Commerce. A speculative operation in which a combination or syndicate buy up the whole of any stock in the market, or the whole available supply of any commodity, so as to drive speculative sellers into a corner, by rendering them unable to fulfil their engagements except by buying of the combination of corner-men at their own price. Also figurative. (Of U.S. origin.)Sometimes applied to any combination to raise the price of an article by securing a monopoly; this is a development in which the primary meaning is lost sight of. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements intromission1567 hedginga1631 retiring1681 partnership1704 put1718 time bargain1720 bargain for time1721 option1746 call1825 put and call1826 cornering1841 corner1853 raid1866 pooling1871 squeeze1872 call option1874 recapitalization1874 short squeeze1877 split-up1878 margin call1888 pyramid1888 profit taking1891 pyramiding1895 underwriting1895 melon-cutting1900 round turn1901 market-making1902 put-through1902 put and take1921 round trip1922 put and take1929 leverage1931 split-down1932 switching1932 give-up1934 mark to market1938 recap1940 rollover1947 downtick1954 stock split1955 traded option1955 leg1959 stock splitting1959 rollover1961 split1972 spread betting1972 unitization1974 marking-to-market1981 swap1982 telebroking1984 society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > specific operations or arrangements > disreputable poison pill1653 rig1826 cornering1841 wash-sale1848 washing1849 market-rigging1851 corner1853 watering1868 wreck1876 manipulation1888 wash1891 market mongering1901 matched orders1903 grey market1933 bond washing1937 warehousing1971 bed-and-breakfasting1974 dawn raid1980 1853 Captain Priest 249 He is the greatest of all men for a ‘corner’. 1857 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. July 135 When a party is made up to buy a large amount of stock, a larger..than is known to be at the time on the market, it is called a corner..Having inflated the market..they make a sudden call for several thousand shares of stock on their buyer's option, and then there comes a sharp time among the sellers, who are generally all short. This creates an active demand, and the clique sell their cash stock to the bears or shorts, who purchase at high rates for delivery at much lower prices to the very parties selling it. 1868 Chicago Tribune 1 Oct. The Corner of Corn. 1877 R. Giffen Stock Exchange Securities 49 A ‘corner’..is a Counter-rig to which a rig for the fall is liable. 1881 Daily News 14 Sept. 2/6 The league of spinners now being formed in Manchester and Oldham to check-mate the Liverpool ‘corner’. 1883 The American VI. 164 ‘Corners’ in railroad stocks or iron rails. 1889 Sat. Rev. 5 Oct. 377 The cotton corner in Liverpool..collapsed on Monday last. 1936 Language 12 200 The followers of Chomsky have no corner on nastiness. 1947 Time 27 Oct. 106/2 One of his exploits was the ‘Hale & Norcross corner’ in 1868, by which he got control of an important mine. 1949 Times 17 Nov. To make a corner in something is monopolistic, unethical and ill-bred. b. dialect and slang. A share; esp. (a) in dialect phrase to stand one's corner: to take or pay for one's share of anything; to do one's share; (b) slang a share in the proceeds of a robbery. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > be involved in or have to do with something > play one's part to play one's prize1565 to do one's stuff1663 to pull one's weight1878 to stand one's corner1878 the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > an allotted share, portion, or part > [noun] > of booty, spoils, or profits fee14.. fleece1601 snappage1602 guile-shares1723 reg'lar1777 regular1811 share-out1864 corner1878 rake-off1887 split1889 tantième1897 cut1918 the mind > possession > taking > taken [verb (intransitive)] > take one's share take one's whack1830 to stand one's corner1930 1878 J. Almond Bunch of Watercresses 21 Tom looked at his shirt to see iv id could be doctored..into doing duty for some o' th' missing articles..but he fun id wer hardly able to stan id own corner. 1889 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang I. 273/1 Corner, (Thieves), a share—generally a share in the proceeds of a robbery. 1891 Standard 5 Mar. 2/5 (E.D.D.) He had arranged to meet the other two men to receive his ‘corner’ (the proceeds of the sale of the stolen property). 1930 E. Wallace White Face xix. 279 He supplied the various gangs [of bank-robbers] with information which enabled them to operate at a minimum risk. Usually he stood in for his corner. 1969 D. Clark Death after Evensong v. 129 Just in time to join in a buckshee last round with no chance of standing his own corner. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. literal (‘situated in or at a corner’). corner-cupboard n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > cupboard or cabinet > [noun] > other cupboards or cabinets Flanders chest1400 warestall1508 livery cupboard1571 boy1656 by-closet1696 corner-cupboard1711 India cabinet1721 pot-cupboard1789 housemaid's cupboard1843 monocleid1885 vargueño1911 console1925 cocktail cabinet1928 storage unit1951 1711 Post-Man & Hist. Account 8 Mar. 2/1 A Dutch Tablemaker..sells all sorts of..Tea Tables, Corner Cupboards and all manner of Japan Work. 1848 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. (rev. ed.) ii. vii. 120 A fleet of boats..were piled up with all kinds of household articles,..quaint corner cupboards. 1851 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 147 In each cell I saw a pretty little corner cupboard. corner-gate n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > gate gatec1000 corner-gate1611 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Kings xiv. 13 From the gate of Ephraim, vnto the corner gate . View more context for this quotation corner-house n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house in specific situation townhouse1571 garden house1598 corner-house1693 wharf-house1698 notch house1825 suburban1856 twilight home1934 twilight house1971 townhome1976 1693 W. Congreve Old Batchelour v. i. 49 Come along with me..to yond' Corner-house. 1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon II. ii. x. 135 He..stopped at a corner house. corner-pew n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > seat > pew > [noun] stool1570 pew1631 corner-pew1663 1663 S. Pepys Diary 3 May (1971) IV. 121 Young Dawes, that sits in the new corner-pew in the church. corner-piece n. † corner-port n. Obsolete (= corner-gate n.) ΚΠ 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Chron. xxvi. 9 And Osias buylded towres at Ierusalem vpon the cornerporte. corner-seat n. (also figurative) ΚΠ 1852 Illustr. London News 17 Jan. 51/3 The two corner seats at the top of the interior [of an omnibus]. 1867 A. D. Whitney Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life v. 79 Mrs. Thoresby and Mrs. Linceford got inside the vehicle at once, securing comfortable back corner-seats. 1894 J. T. Taylor Veil Lifted 31 His thoughts had been..concentrated upon..securing a corner seat in a smoking carriage. 1940 L. MacNeice Last Ditch 21 Opposite in corner seats we hope for nearness. 1959 J. Braine Vodi x. 143 They had booked first-class corner seats to death, all of them. corner-shelf n. ΚΠ 1805 J. Austen Let. 27 Aug. (1995) 110 Nor need I be diffuse on the state of Lady Bridges's bookcase and corner-shelves upstairs. 1889 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Despot Broomsedge Cove xxii. 395 The quilts..were piled high on the ‘corner shelf’ which they had burdened of yore. corner-table n. ΚΠ 1924 M. Arlen Green Hat iv. 110 Nearby was a corner-table of eight young people. 1956 E. Grierson Second Man i. 32 The secluded corner table with the shaded lights. b. figurative. (Chiefly with meaning ‘done in a corner’: see 6), as corner-contract, corner-meeting, etc. ΚΠ 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. ii. 40 These corner contracts, without consent of parents. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. sig. Ff5 Casting a kinde of corner looke vpon him. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 40 They had their secret corner-meetings. 1619 W. Whately Gods Husb. (1622) ii. 44 Drag this corner-seeking..vice into the open view. 1651 J. F. tr. H. C. Agrippa Three Bks. Occult Philos. Ep. 165 With corner-whisperings from house to house. a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 134 Our corner-miching priests. C2. Special combinations. Also corner-cap n., corner-stone n., etc. corner-back n. in certain field sports (esp. American Football), (one playing in) a defensive position on the wing. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > types of player side tackle1809 nose guard1852 rusher1877 goalkicker1879 quarterback1879 runner1880 quarter1883 full back1884 left guard1884 snap-back1887 snapper-back1887 running back1891 tackle1891 defensive end1897 guard1897 interferer1897 receiver1897 defensive back1898 defensive tackle1900 safety man1901 ball carrier1902 defensive lineman1902 homebrew1903 offensive lineman1905 lineman1907 returner1911 signal caller1915 rover1916 interference1920 punt returner1926 pass rusher1928 tailback1930 safety1931 blocker1935 faker1938 scatback1946 linesman1947 flanker1953 platoon player1953 corner-back1955 pulling guard1955 split end1955 return man1957 slot-back1959 strong safety1959 wide receiver1960 line-backer1961 pocket passer1963 tight end1963 run blocker1967 wideout1967 blitzer1968 1955 T. Doyle Lifetime in Hurling xx. 142 John Joe Doyle (Clare)..is my choice for left-corner-back. 1964 Sports Illustr. 5 Oct. 33/1 Rote..tried to throw to Split End Don Marton, who was being guarded by rookie Corner Back George Byrd. 1979 Southern Star (County Cork, Ireland) 29 Sept. 24/7 Behind them young Mick Murphy had been clinging leech-like to Ray Cummins while experienced corner-backs Jerry O'Sullivan and Ted O'Brien were also giving nothing away. 1986 Touchdown Apr. 39/1 So often the attention focusses on the cornerbacks who make the most interceptions. corner-block n. (see quots.); (see also 3b above). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting blocks > for a bracket pattress1886 corner-block1932 1932 F. L. Wright Autobiogr. ii. 138 The whole exterior was bedeviled..mixed to puzzle-pieces, with corner-boards, panel-boards, window-frames, corner-blocks. 1962 Gloss. Terms Glass Ind. (B.S.I.) 14 Corner block, specially shaped block used in the dog-house corners. 1966 A. W. Lewis Gloss. Woodworking Terms 18 Corner blocks, wooden blocks glued and screwed in position on the inside of a framework to strengthen the joint. corner-boy n. (esp. in Ireland) = corner-man n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] > frequenting streets scamperer1712 corner-boy1855 plug-ugly1856 corner-cove1862 keelie1863 tough1866 larrikin1868 corner-man1885 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > frequenting streets scamperer1712 sweater1712 corner-boy1855 plug-ugly1856 corner-cove1862 keelie1863 tough1866 larrikin1868 corner-man1885 voyoua1896 tsotsi1949 1855 D. G. Mitchell Fudge Doings (N.Y. ed.) II. 47 Presently the corner-boy, Jerry, comes in. He is a short-haired, half-Irish boy, [etc.]. 1882 Standard 7 Sept. 3/4 The Dublin loafers, or ‘corner boys’, as they are called. 1886 Dublin Daily Express 5 Apr. In the Petty Sessions, Robert Nolan and James Kinsella, two corner boys, were charged with having committed a violent and unprovoked assault. 1888 G. M. Hopkins Let. 10 Feb. (1935) 274 Tramps, Cornerboys, Roughs, Socialists and other pests of society. 1946 J. Hampson in Penguin New Writing 138 Len and his Cardiff. corner-boy have been arrested for the robbery. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 May 262/3 A Labour M.P...visits the Territory of Wajingaland at the urgent behest of its seediest corner~boy. corner-chisel n. a chisel with two rectangular edges for cutting the corners of mortises. corner-cove n. slang = corner-man n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > ruffianly conduct > ruffian > [noun] > frequenting streets scamperer1712 corner-boy1855 plug-ugly1856 corner-cove1862 keelie1863 tough1866 larrikin1868 corner-man1885 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > violent treatment or force > frequenting streets scamperer1712 sweater1712 corner-boy1855 plug-ugly1856 corner-cove1862 keelie1863 tough1866 larrikin1868 corner-man1885 voyoua1896 tsotsi1949 1862 A. Halliday in H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) Extra vol. 445/2 I mean by corner-coves them sort of men who is always a standing at the corners of the streets and chaffing respectable folks a passing by. corner cutter n. a machine for cutting the corners of books, cards, etc. ΚΠ 1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. Corner cutter. 1. A machine for cutting the corners off cards or books... 2. A machine for cutting out notches from blanks of cardboard, intended to be bent up to form boxes. corner-cutting n. and adj. taking the quickest, easiest, cheapest, or most expedient course of action (see cut v. 21d). ΚΠ 1960 V. Packard Waste Makers (1961) x. 105 Some of the breaking down undoubtedly resulted from simple corner-cutting or haste to get out a new model. 1961 M. McCarthy in Harper's Mag. July 51/2 Defective airplanes sold to the government by a corner-cutting manufacturer. corner-dish n. a dish for the corner of the table. ΚΠ 1796 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) v. 48 It is a pretty corner-dish for dinner or supper. corner-drill n. a drill used in places where there is not room to use the ordinary brace-handle. corner flag n. a flag marking a corner of the playing area of a football or hockey field; so corner-flag kick, a corner (sense 13). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > [noun] > corner-flag corner flag1882 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > [noun] > ground > corner-flag corner flag1882 1882 Blackburn Times 1 Apr. 6/3 The first kick from the corner flag. 1887 M. Shearman Athletics & Football (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) App. 388 In no case shall a goal be scored from any free kick... The kick-off and corner-flag kick shall be free kicks within the meaning of this rule. 1897 Earl of Suffolk et al. Encycl. Sport I. 420/2 The ball must be placed a yard from the corner-flag. 1958 Times 24 Nov. 3/2 Scoring by the right-hand corner-flag. 1960 E. S. Higham & W. J. Higham High Speed Rugby xvii. 242 The other forwards..will corner-flag to the open side. corner-flag v. (intransitive) to run towards a corner flag. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > play rugby football [verb (intransitive)] > actions or manoeuvres pack1874 heel1884 scrum1890 goal1900 drop1905 to give (or sell) the (or a) dummy1907 ruck1910 jinka1914 to drop out1917 fly-kick1930 scissor1935 quick-heel1936 short-punt1937 touch-kick1954 grubber-kick1958 peel1960 corner-flag1962 to chip and chase1970 box kick1977 1962 Times 26 Feb. 4/2 A dangerous dribble..was foiled by Jeeps's corner-flagging. corner-forward n. Hurling (one playing in) an attacking position on the wing; an outside forward. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > hockey > hurling > [noun] > player > specific position corner-forward1955 1955 T. Doyle Lifetime in Hurling xx. 144 Other corner-forwards whom I might easily have included are John Joe Callanan and Willie O'Donnell. 1979 Southern Star (County Cork, Ireland) 29 Sept. 24/1 As the rising shot sped goalwards the Barrs vigilant corner forward Eamonn Fitzpatrick rose high to flick it past the surprised Midleton defence. corner-grocery n. U.S. a grocery, or a bar-room, situated at a street corner. ΚΠ 1849 in Mrs. F. L. Adams Pioneer Hist. Ingham Co. (1923) 149 A little old ‘corner grocery’ building occupied the corner where Pratt & Millspaugh's block now stands. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Corner-grocery, a grocer's shop on the corner of two streets, a favorite location for such establishments in American towns. 1862 Congress. Globe 7 July 3159/1 Without subjecting themselves to the charge of disloyalty by every corner-grocery politician in the land. 1870 ‘F. Fern’ Ginger-snaps 106 Tea to the working-girl, taken in this way, is like the ‘corner-grocery-drink’ to the working-man. 1890 G. W. Perrie Buckskin Mose (new ed.) i. 11 Carrying out tea and sugar..with other such necessaries and luxuries, from a corner-grocery. 1932 Atlantic Monthly CL. 141 She telephones to the corner grocery. corner-hit n. (see sense 13e). corner-house n. (a) (see sense Compounds 1a); (b) (with capital initials) one of a number of large restaurants in London owned by J. Lyons and Co., Ltd. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > eating-house or restaurant > other eating-houses ordinary1590 chop-house1699 porterhouse?1730 steak house1762 beef-house1807 rotisserie1825 fish-shop1826 supper tavern1841 supper house1855 supper room1858 grill-room1883 teetotum1891 grill1896 bar and grill1903 corner-house1912 bistro1922 roadhouse1922 hot doggery1923 rosticceria1930 dinette1940 British Restaurant1941 drive-through1949 drive-up1956 sobaya1958 carvery1962 ouzeri1964 crêperie1967 steak restaurant1970 sushiya1970 steak bar1971 buka1972 kopitiam1979 bukateria1980 churrascaria1981 parrilla1981 Indian1982 theme pub1983 parrillada1984 restobar1992 1415 in W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 232 Fro the corner howse..vntill the garden. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 225 The corner house, at the ende of Bassinges hall streete. 1693 [see corner-house n. at Compounds 1a]. 1886 [see corner-house n. at Compounds 1a]. 1912 C. Mackenzie Carnival xx. 200 Noisy tea-parties in..the Corner House, where ladies were not permitted to smoke and customers were kindly requested to pay at the desk. 1923 A. Huxley Antic Hay xii. 179 An acquaintance which ripened..over the tea-cups..on the fifth floor of Lyons' Strand Corner House. 1958 G. Greene Our Man in Havana v. vi. 260 We could meet at the Corner House for a cheap snack. 1963 V. Nabokov Gift v. 297 A white Pskovan-type church, which had recently grown up out of the corner house. corner-kick n. (see sense 13). corner-lot n. U.S. a plot of ground (with its block of buildings) at the corner of two streets or roads, having a frontage to each. ΚΠ 1702 J. Logan in Corr. Penn & Logan (1870) I. 129 I have sold the corner lot next the Meeting-House for £115. 1816 Boston Selectmen 29 July The corner lot of the new street. 1863 Congr. Globe 28 Feb. App. 139/1 These early pioneers [in Colorado]..commenced laying off ‘corner lots’, and holding elections. 1868 Putnam's Mag. Jan. 24 No corner-lot banditti, Or brokers from the city. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West iii. 65 Every man..is hopeful as a millionaire if he have a few corner lots, and ten dollars in his pocket. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxxi. 68 To keep a store in a ‘corner lot’ is the ambition of the keen-witted lad. 1909 F. Norris Third Circle 104 Incidentally corner lots are desirable. corner-mark n. U.S. a boundary-mark at a corner of a property; so. ΚΠ 1690 in Duxbury (Mass.) Rec. (1893) 71 A stake & a heap of stones for the north east corner, where was the former corner mark of said land. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 343 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV These fragile corner~marks are strictly respected by the neighbors, and a case of trespass rarely occurs. corner-post n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > boundary mark > post > at a corner corner-post1445 1445 Plea & Mem. R. Lond. Gildh. A. 71. m. 3b A wall..strecchyng..vnto a corner post standing in the southest Corner of the tenement. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 198 They make of yuory the very principals and corner posts of their houses. 1648 Charlestown Land Rec. in Rec. Early Hist. Boston (1878) III. 11 A parcell of land lying within and between the upper corner post of the house. 1785 A. Ellicott in Life & Lett. (1908) 41 Joseph went with some Hands to enlarge the Pile of Stones about the Corner Post. 1946 F. D. Davison Dusty iii. 31 There might be a length or two of broken fence, or an old charred corner-post. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Jan. 58/3 Corner posts and strainer posts..require special moulds because of their size. Corner posts should measure about 6 in. × 6 in. × 6 ft. 6 in. long. corner-stake n. also figurative ΚΠ 1678 Oyster Bay Rec. I. 114 A lott of Land..rainging from ye corner stake. 1739 in 3rd Bk. Rec. Southampton (N.Y.) (1878) 16 They both of them accepted of ye division where they set ye corner stakes. 1873 E. Eggleston Myst. Metropolisville xi. 97 They sought first to guess out the line of a railroad; they examined corner-stakes. 1880 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 184 I then lay it down as a second corner-stake in our inquiry. † corner-pie n. Obsolete ? a pie for the corner of the table. ΚΠ 1638 W. Berkeley Lost Lady A knights daughter..that has not one commendable quality, more then to make a corner pye and a sallad. corner-piece n. a piece (casting, tool, etc.) for strengthening or dealing with corners. corner pillar n. Carriage-building see quot. ΚΠ 1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. (Gloss.) 216 Corner Pillars, the corner framings of bodies. corner-plate n. an iron angle-plate for protecting or strengthening the corners of anything. corner-punch n. an angular punch for cleaning out corners. corner-saw n. a saw for cutting off the corners of a block. corner shop n. a shop at the corner of a street; hence, a small local shop (as opposed to a multiple store, supermarket, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > small shop > local convenience store1902 duka1912 dairy1914 sari-sari store1925 café1957 corner shop1963 neighbourhood friendly1970 depanneur1975 kirana1979 1278–9 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Wills Court of Husting (1889) I. 37 [To Adam his son and Johanna his daughter a shop called] ‘La Cornereschoppe.’ 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor ii. i. sig. E Hee would shew well vpon a Habberdashers stall, at a corner shop rarely. View more context for this quotation 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. v. 20 The wine-shop was a corner shop. 1963 P. Willmott Evol. Community x. 125 Small, really local pubs and corner shops have found no place in most post-war plans. 1966 Guardian 11 May 4/7 The corner shop is lagging behind the supermarket in hygiene and clean food standards. 1970 ‘C. Fremlin’ Don't go to Sleep 74 It was a dead street. There were no corner shops, no prams. corner-tile n. a tile used for capping the hip of a roof, a hip-tile. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > tile > [noun] > for roofing > for hip hip tile1363 corner-tile1477 1477 Act 17 Edw. IV c. 3 Roftile ou crestile cornertile & guttertile. 1659 T. Willsford Architectonice 17 The corner tyles have their upper angles acute, with pinholes in them. 1726 R. Neve City & Country Purchaser (ed. 2) Hip-Tyles, Corner-Tyles. These are to lie on the Hips, or Corners of Roofs. corner-tooth n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Corner-teeth of a Horse are the four teeth between the middling teeth and the tushes; two above and two below, on each side of the jaw, which shoot when the horse is four years and a half old. Farrier's Dict. corner-tree n. U.S. a tree which marks the corner of a surveyed tract. ΚΠ 1661 Portsmouth Rec. 108 That the lotters are to run the line..from Corner tree to Corner tree. 1786 G. Washington Diaries III. 55 Not having Hough's field Notes, and no Corner trees being noted in His Plat, I did not attempt to look for lines. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase xii. 87 We began to look through the legal blazes to espy a corner tree cut and notched in a peculiar way. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Corner-trees. See Witness-trees. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Corner-trees, trees which mark the boundary lines of homesteads, claims, etc. Draft additions September 2019 corner throw n. (a) (in water polo and handball) a free throw of the ball for the attacking side from (near) the corner of the playing area; (b) Judo = sumi-gaeshi n. [In sense (b) after Japanese sumi-gaeshi sumi-gaeshi n.] ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > martial arts > [noun] > judo or ju-jitsu > actions or positions armlock1841 hip throw1850 neck lock1876 breakfall1906 sutemi-waza1906 tomoe-nage1906 tsurikomi-goshi1906 uchimata1906 uki-goshi1906 uki-otoshi1906 ura-nage1906 corner throw1911 sumi-gaeshi1918 yoko-shiho-gatame1918 kesa-gatame1932 o-goshi1932 osaekomi-waza1932 seoi nage1932 take-down1939 harai goshi1941 osae-waza1941 tsukuri1941 uki-waza1941 body drop1948 tsurikomi-ashi1948 jigotai1950 kuzushi1950 tai-otoshi1950 tsugi ashi1950 hold-down1954 reaping1954 shime-waza1954 ude-garami1954 ude-gatame1954 uki-gatame1954 osotogari1956 shoulder throw1956 tsurikomi1956 ukemi1956 reap1968 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 385 Any player [sc. in water polo] throwing the ball over his own goal line concedes a corner throw to the other side. 1918 K. Yamanaka Jiu-jutsu 118 Corner throw. This trick was called tsuri-otoshi until the name was changed to Sumigayeshi in 1905. 1989 B. Caffary Judo Handbk. 94 Sumi-gaeshi is exactly what it is called—a corner throw—because the technique begins by breaking an opponent's balance to a front corner and then following through with action which propels him over your head in that same corner. 2019 Herald (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 29 Jan. This was the first tournament at which Fina's changes to water polo rules were applied at school level... The amendments to the rules pertain to substitutions, free throws, corner throws, ordinary fouls and penalty fouls. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † cornern.² Obsolete. = cornel n.¹ a battlement, embrasure. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > battlements > embrasure kernel?c1225 cornelc1300 carnelc1320 cornerc1400 vent1429 loop1477 crenel1481 gun-hole1532 spike1577 cannonery1598 spike-hole1598 casemate1611 porthole1637 skitegate1677 embrasure1702 crenelet1860 port1946 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. vi. 69 It hath many toures, pynacles and corneres [Roxb. (ix. 35) kirnelles and toures; Fr. kerneux]. c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) l. 9924 The third colour..That tho corners [Vesp. kirnels, Trin. Cambr. carneles] with are peynt. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021). cornerv. Brit. /ˈkɔːnə/, U.S. /ˈkɔrnər/ Etymology: < corner n.¹ 1. a. transitive. To furnish with corners, give corners to. (Chiefly in past participle) ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > angularity > make angular or furnish with angles or corners [verb (transitive)] cornera1387 angulatea1664 angularize1815 quoin1834 quain1868 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 305 Þ^e ilond Corsica is cornered wiþ many forlondes, schetynge in to the see. a1674 J. Milton Brief Hist. Moscovia (1682) iii. 36 The imperial City..built of White-stone four-square..corner'd with four White Towers. 1838 Fraser's Mag. 18 181 Its walls..are whitewashed, and cornered with stone. 1864 R. A. Arnold Hist. Cotton Famine 26 Sometimes it is cornered with pilasters. b. to corner off: to finish off with corners, to bring to a square. (Cf. to round off at round v.² Phrasal verbs.) ΚΠ 1853 W. J. Hickie tr. Aristophanes Comedies II. 581 The cornering-off of verses. 2. To place or set in a corner. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > in a corner, recess, or nook cornera1387 cradlea1400 niche1710 ensconce1820 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 179 Þe citee..is cornered wiþynne þe clippynge of þe walles faste by þe see side. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. viii. 92 A decent domicile Cornered in snug Condotti. 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iii. 149 Cornered in the cosiest nook of all. 1888 Times (Weekly ed.) 7 Dec. 7/4 A really clever work may be ‘skied’ or ‘cornered’ simply because it chances to fit a vacant space. 3. a. To drive into a corner; to force into an awkward or desperate position; to put in a ‘tight place’; to bring to bay. (Apparently of U.S. origin.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) in difficulty > force into a difficult situation > force into an inescapable position to drive (also push) to the wall1546 to drive into a corner1548 corner1841 to box (a person, esp. oneself) into a corner1955 1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. xlii. 67 Their more powerful enemy, who had ‘cornered them up’ in such a way, that there was no other possible mode for their escape. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables v. 92 A recluse, like Hepzibah, usually displays remarkable frankness..on being absolutely cornered, and brought to the point of personal intercourse. 1866 Cornhill Mag. Dec. 740 The horses..bolt about the yard..and are only cornered with the help of numbers and forced to submit. 1884 E. P. Roe Nature's Serial Story x, in Harper's Mag. Sept. 548/2 A rat will fight a man if cornered. b. figurative. To put into a position of difficulty or embarrassment. colloquial. (Chiefly U.S.) ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > put (a person) in difficulty > force into a difficult situation to tie to the stake1544 fix1736 to set up1747 corner1824 to drive into a corner1861 bunker1930 to get or have (a person) by the short and curlies1948 to box (a person, esp. oneself) into a corner1955 1824 Massachusetts Spy 21 Apr. Cornered up so unexpectedly, she candidly confessed. 1848 J. R. Lowell Poems 2nd Ser. (Moxon) 345 Although there are few so Outrageously cornered by fate as poor Crusoe. 1867 O. W. Holmes Guardian Angel II. i. 21 Clement was cornered. It was necessary to say something. 1868 E. Yates Rock Ahead III. iii. iii. 67 He felt that he was morally ‘cornered’. 1881 ‘M. Twain’ Prince & Pauper vi. 57 Once the little Lady Jane turned to Tom and cornered him with this question. 4. Commerce. a. To operate against (a particular stock or commodity, or the dealers in it) by means of a corner n.¹ 14; to bring under the control of a ‘corner’. (Of U.S. origin.) The sense-development was (1) to corner the speculative sellers of a given stock; (2) to corner the stock or commodity; (3) to corner the Exchange, or market. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (transitive)] > specific operations subscribe1618 to take up1655 to sell out1721 to take in1721 to take up1740 pool?1780 capitalize1797 put1814 feed1818 to vote (the) stock (or shares)1819 corner1836 to sell short1852 promote1853 recapitalize1856 refund1857 float1865 water1865 margin1870 unload1870 acquire1877 maintain1881 syndicate1882 scalp1886 pyramid1888 underwrite1889 oversubscribe1891 joint-stock1894 wash1895 write1908 mark1911 split1927 marry1931 stag1935 unwind1958 short1959 preplace1966 unitize1970 bed and breakfast1974 index-link1974 warehouse1977 daisy-chain1979 strip1981 greenmail1984 pull1986 1836 Knickerbocker 7 42 He has been cornered by the brokers on the —— stock and has lost all his fortune. 1841 Week in Wall St. 89 A squad of Bull-backers had been secretly..getting control of a certain stock, intending to ‘corner’ some one with it. 1857 Hunt's Merchants' Mag. July 135 The managers of the stock cornered. 1860 in J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 1871 Guardian 12 Nov. 1598/1 Some speculators had ‘cornered’ the Cotton Exchange, that is to say, had bought more for the October delivery than can possibly arrive. 1881 Standard 29 July 5/8 Flagrant instances of..‘cornering’ and ‘rigging’ the market. 1881 Standard 14 Sept. 4/7 When sellers have contracted to supply a quantity in excess of what they can obtain they are said to be ‘Cornered’. 1883 Manch. Examiner 6 Nov. 4/4 Those gentlemen who attempt to ‘corner’ cotton. 1948 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 26 June 47/2 The New Bedford whaling firm..set out to corner the whalebone market. b. intransitive. To form a ‘corner’ in a stock or commodity. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > deal in stocks and shares [verb (intransitive)] > specific operations soften1565 to get out1728 bear1837 to rig the (stock) market1841 stag1845 cornera1860 to straddle the market1870 raid1889 to make a market1899 to job backwards1907 to mark to (the) market1925 short1959 daisy-chain1979 to pitch for ——1983 a1860 A Week in Wall Street 81 These [brokers] generally unite in squads for the purpose of cornering. 1881 Daily News 28 Sept. 4/7 There are many stocks even in America in which the..Wall-street operators would not dream of attempting to corner. 5. transitive. a. To take round a corner. b. To go round (a corner) in a race-course. (colloquial) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > ride horse in race [verb (transitive)] > actions of rider bore1677 jostle1723 pinch1740 pull1781 rope1854 screw1855 corner1861 ride1863 ready1887 poach1891 nurse1893 to ask (a horse) the question1894 stiffen1900 shoo1908 rate1946 stop1954 niggle1963 1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations xlv, in All Year Round 8 June 243/2 He was taken down the Dover road and cornered out of it. 1864 Saunders's News-let. Ford gaining a little until they came to the turn into the straight run in to the finish, which Rogers cornered beautifully. c. intransitive. Of a vehicle, horse, etc.: to go round a corner. Cf. cornering n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (intransitive)] > go round a corner corner1909 1909 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. 1940 M. Platt Automobile Engin. vii. 149 A third form of axle loading is produced by the lateral forces which arise when a car is cornering. 1958 Times 15 July 7/6 The Six-Ninety..corners smoothly. 6. intransitive. To abut or impinge on at a corner; to meet at a corner or angle. U.S. ΚΠ 1821 in Boston (Mass.) Rec. (1909) XXXIX. 189 A point where said fence and his other fence join cornering on said streets. 1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 54 The woman led us to a pew cornering on one of the side-aisles. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Aug. 11/2 The junction where Montgomery, Yell, and Garland counties corner. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹1278n.²c1400v.a1387
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