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Corner   /kˈɔrnər/   Listen
noun
Corner  n.  
1.
The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
2.
The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point; as, the chimney corner.
3.
An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part. "From the four corners of the earth they come."
4.
A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook. "This thing was not done in a corner."
5.
Direction; quarter. "Sits the wind in that corner!"
6.
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. (Broker's Cant)
Corner stone, the stone which lies at the corner of two walls, and unites them; the principal stone; especially, the stone which forms the corner of the foundation of an edifice; hence, that which is fundamental importance or indispensable. "A prince who regarded uniformity of faith as the corner stone of his government."
Corner tooth, one of the four teeth which come in a horse's mouth at the age of four years and a half, one on each side of the upper and of the lower jaw, between the middle teeth and the tushes.


Corner  n.  (Association Football) (More fully corner kick.) A free kick from close to the nearest corner flag post, allowed to the opposite side when a player has sent the ball behind his own goal line.


verb
Corner  v. t.  (past & past part. cornered; pres. part. cornering)  
1.
To drive into a corner.
2.
To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
3.
To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.





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"Corner" Quotes from Famous Books



... content, of which as yet she failed to realise the meaning. Nevertheless, her heart beat with a pleasurable excitement as she threaded her way through the crowded streets, wondering if once again the fairy equipage would be sent to the rescue, if it would appear at this corner or the next. At last, through the driving sleet, she recognised the familiar outline of the brougham drawn up beside the pavement, but for once the coachman sat stiffly on his box, while the master stepped forward to ...
— The Fortunes of the Farrells • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
... Babbie on his knee, sat in the corner of the bay window looking out on the street, while Mrs. Armstrong and her brother and Miss Hunniwell played and sang and the captain applauded vigorously and loudly demanded more. After a time Ruth left the group at the piano and joined Jed and her ...
— Shavings • Joseph C. Lincoln
... remember too!" said Alexandra. "You quarrelled about the wounded pigeon, and Adelaida was put in the corner, and stood there with her helmet and ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... vouchsafed no reply, either to their threats or their supplications, and how long the blockade might have lasted it is impossible to say, had not a fresh dissension called the beleaguerers away. A cluster of boys at a corner of the big corridor near the main entrance attracted their curiosity, and suggested a possibility of even more entertainment than the goading into fury of a parcel of little boys, so, taking advantage of a moment when the besieged had combined, shoulder ...
— The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's - A School Story • Talbot Baines Reed
... flung themselves panting against the sides of the square, for they had good reason to know that whoso was left outside when the fighting began would very probably die in an extremely unpleasant fashion. The little hundred-and-fifty-pound camel-guns posted at one corner of the square opened the ball as the square moved forward by its right to get possession of a knoll of rising ground. All had fought in this manner many times before, and there was no novelty in the entertainment; always the ...
— The Light That Failed • Rudyard Kipling


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