Cornered
['kɔːnəd] or ['fɔr'kɔrnɚd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Corner
(p. a.) 1 Having corners or angles.
(p. a.) In a possition of great difficulty; brought to bay.
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Examples
- At the old lodgings it was understood that he was summoned to Dover, and, in fact, he was taken down the Dover road and cornered out of it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The contest in Europe from the fourteenth century onward therefore was a three-cornered contest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They do not plow with a sharpened stick, nor yet with a three-cornered block of wood that merely scratches the top of the ground. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- That dear, little, gentleman-like bow, on the little, _vielle cour_, three-cornered hat! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The Gould and Fisk crowd had cornered gold, and had run the quotations up faster than the indicator could follow. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Pray William, said his mother, why do you come to the Hoppera in that hodious round 'at, after giving such a price for a three-cornered one? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Couldn't you--didn't you--now, if it had rained sugar-plums, or three-cornered raspberry tarts, or anything of that sort! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- At this moment, the ill-looking man was inspecting the hole in the crown of his three-cornered hat. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Esmeralda and I cornered in an old cabin by a perfectly awful man-eating lioness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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