cornered, ppl. a.
(ˈkɔːnəd)
[f. corner n. + -ed2.]
1. Having a corner or corners. (Frequently in composition, as three-cornered, sharp-cornered.)
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 10310 Cornered as a cheker quarre. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xv. lxxix. (1495) 519 A syx cornered stone. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 93 Corneryd, angulatus. 1551 Recorde Cast. Knowl. (1556) 111 Cornered bodies be most vnapt for to run. 1592 W. Wyrley Armorie 139 Whose cornered shield was laid with skilfull blew. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 73 The indented creekes and cornered nouks [of Peloponnesus]. 1756 Sir J. Hill Herbal v. 114 The leaves are cornered and smooth. 1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 9 A large four cornered sail. 1817 R. Jameson Char. Min. 90 Sharp-cornered, as in quartz and calcedony. Blunt-cornered, as in common opal. |
† 2. Having (geometrical) angles. Obs.
| 1551 Recorde Pathw. Knowl. i. xxx, Those iij. lines will make a triangle equally cornered to the triangle assigned. 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry ii. iv. (1611) 44 A cornered Line is framed of sundry lines meeting together cornerwise. |
† 3. cornered cap: = corner-cap. Obs.
| 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. 115 The cornered cappe, say these misterious fellows, doth signifie..the whole monarchy of the world, East, West, North, and South. 1590 Greenwood Answ. Def. Read Prayers 26 If yt be not necessarie, put such conueniency in your cornerd Capp, or surplus. c 1640 in Maidment Sc. Pasquils (1868) 139 Will make the Pope curse his mishap And Prelats wail their corner'd cap. 1682 N. O. Boileau's Le Lutrin iv. 75 His corner'd Cap (for fear of cold) on's Head. |
4. See corner v. 2, 3.