corner

intj

Etymology: From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn.

1. Spoken by service staff such as waiters when walking around a corner, to warn other staff and prevent a collision.

name

1. Ellipsis of Hyde Park Corner.
2. The Tattersalls horse repository and betting rooms, originally located at Hyde Park Corner.

   “Indeed, the whole aspect of the Corner, with its open space and green lawns, is so different from what it once was that it requires a glance at the sturdy brick wall of Buckingham Palace Gardens […] to assure the wanderer that, after all, nothing very revolutionary has occurred, and that things are much as they used to be twenty years ago.”

noun

Etymology: From corn + -er. Piecewise doublet of grainer.

1. One who corns, or preserves food in salt.

   “Big firms received rebates from railroads in which they owned stock, paid off city officials in order to obtain a low-cost water supply, and fought meat-inspection laws, and meat packers speculated in pork and beef corners.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn.

1. To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.

   “The cat had cornered a cricket between the sofa and the television stand.”

   “In Juazeiro do Norte, demonstrators cornered the mayor inside a bank for hours and called for his impeachment, while thousands of others protested teachers’ salaries.”

2. To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.

   “The reporter cornered the politician by pointing out the hypocrisy of his position on mandatory sentencing, in light of the politician's own actions in court.”

3. To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
4. To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.

   “The buyers attempted to corner the shares of the railroad stock, so as to facilitate their buyout.”

   “It's extremely hard to corner the petroleum market because there are so many players.”

5. To turn a corner or drive around a curve.

   “As the stock car driver cornered the last turn, he lost control and spun out.”

6. To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.

   “That BMW corners well, but the suspension is too stiff.”

7. To supply with corners.

   “Tool for cornering and cutting off copper switch blades”