Definition of corner

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Corner (v. t.) To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument..

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Rebate :: Rebate (n.) A rectangular longitudinal recess or groove, cut in the corner or edge of any body; a rabbet. See Rabbet..
Rook :: Rook (n.) One of the four pieces placed on the corner squares of the board; a castle.
Corner :: Corner (n.) The state of things produced by a combination of persons, who buy up the whole or the available part of any stock or species of property, which compels those who need such stock or property to buy of them at their own price; as, a corner in a railway stock..
Quincunx :: Quincunx (n.) An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions..
Trinket :: Trinket (n.) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard..
Horn :: Horn (n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
Biangular :: Biangular (a.) Having two angles or corners.
Cringle :: Cringle (n.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc..
Pentagonal :: Pentagonal (a.) Having five corners or angles.
Aegilops :: Aegilops (n.) An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye.
Corner :: Corner (n.) Direction; quarter.
Dog-eared :: Dog-eared (a.) Having the corners of the leaves turned down and soiled by careless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book.
Diagonal :: Diagonal (a.) Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides.
Nook-shotten :: Nook-shotten (a.) Full of nooks, angles, or corners..
Around :: Around (prep.) From one part to another of; at random through; about; on another side of; as, to travel around the country; a house standing around the corner..
Goosewing :: Goosewing (n.) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
Bite :: Bite (v.) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper..
Cornerwise :: Cornerwise (adv.) With the corner in front; diagonally; not square.
Corner :: Corner (n.) A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
By-corner :: By-corner (n.) A private corner.
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