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Definition of Cata-cornered
1. Adjective. Slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line. "Set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot"
Similar to: Oblique
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cata-cornered
Literary usage of Cata-cornered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practical Book of Interior Decoration by Harold Donaldson Eberlein, Edward Stratton Holloway, Abbot MacClure (1919)
"... things cata- cornered" gives homelike character, are notable offenders in this
respect. A chair, or resting stool or two, may be left at the convenient ..."
2. Pioneering the West, 1846 to 1878: Major Howard Egan's Diary : Also edited by William Monroe Egan (1917)
"The lot was a corner lot and directly cata-cornered from the northeast corner of
union square. The barn was built cross ways of the lot and about a third of ..."
3. Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Nebraska by Nebraska Supreme Court, James Mills Woolworth (1888)
"... at the time he built the fence which was torn down by the defendant, she had
a "cata- cornered" fence on the land, which, with other fences on adjoining ..."
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