Definition of Cornering

1. Verb. (present participle of corner) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cornering

1. corner [v] - See also: corner

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornering

corner pocket
corner post
corner shop
corner shops
corner solution
corner store
corner stores
corner the market
corner time
corner tooth
cornerbacks
cornercap
cornercaps
cornered
cornering (current term)
cornerless
cornerlike
cornerman
cornermen
corners
cornerstone
cornerstones
cornerways
cornerwise
cornet
cornetcies
cornetcy
corneter
corneters

Literary usage of Cornering

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Logging: The Principles and General Methods of Operation in the United States by Ralph Clement Bryant (1913)
"Boxing is followed by cornering, performed by two workers, ... The object of cornering is to provide a suitable face for the commencement of the subsequent ..."

2. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1906)
"cornering boxes, and he worked at that until Friday of that week, and told me that he had left his family, and would go and see how they were, ..."

3. Agricultural Economics: A Selection of Materials in which Economic by Edwin Griswold Nourse (1916)
"cornering THE MARKET'- In the middle of April the price of wheat rose, after some weeks of spectacular advances, to war and famine figures. ..."

4. Agricultural Economics: A Selection of Materials in which Economic by Edwin Griswold Nourse (1916)
"cornering THE MARKET1 In the middle of April the price of wheat rose, after some weeks of spectacular advances, to war and famine figures. ..."

5. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1914)
"... but plaintiff claimed that the price fixed was fictitiously created by the buyer and others by cornering the wheat market, and instituted suits to ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Cornering on Dictionary.com!Search for Cornering on Thesaurus.com!Search for Cornering on Google!Search for Cornering on Wikipedia!

Search