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corner1 (c.1136-65)
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The form cornire is a cross reference to the following entry:

corner1 (c.1136-65)

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cornere,  corniere,  cornire,  cornor,  cornore  (cornerc  Black Prince Test 230,  cormiere)  
  FEW:  cornu 2/ii,1200a Gdf:  cornier 1 2,306b / cornier 2 2,306b GdfC: ∅ TL: cornier  2,878 DEAF:  cor 1 (cornier)  DMF:  cornier 1  TLF:  cornier  / cornier 1  / cornier 2  OED:  corner n.1  MED:  corner n.1  DMLBS:  cornarius 2 492b

s.

1corner: 
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  les herberges [...] A la fez deivent estre quarrez, a la fié de treis corners, a al fié demi ronz  vegetius2 27.3
( s.xiv1/3?; MS: c.1330 )  si feites l'encloistre de quatre corners, issi ke quatre pans i seient  Allegory Monastic 5
( 1347 )  j. crotz d’argent dorré et emaillé ové trois corals a les corners  Test Ebor i 43
( MS: s.xiv2 )  faitez .iiij. croiz en .iiij. corners de la plate  Rom 37 516
♦geog.corner (of land, body of water, etc.): 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  un altre estance [...], La place dedenz est quarree [...]. As angles de quatre cornieres Ad peissuns de quatre manieres  Brut WACE 9542
( c.1300 )  de la porte de North […] deskes a la cornere que fu R. de la P.  Oak Book i 54
( 1338 )  […] mesqe un homme abate en un tiel corner arbres par congé  YBB 11-12 Ed III 447
♦chessgamescorner (of chess-board): 
( s.xiii; MS: s.xiiiex )  ilokes seit (=the red king) estalé issi ke le neir rei seit en la corniere  (ms. cormiere)  Eschez ANTS 14 (prose)
♦corner-support: 
( 1360-61 )  que tieu canevace (=wool-pack) ensemblement ové lor corners lor soient alloués, sanz ent paier custume  Stats i 368 xix
♦herald.corner (of shield) (referring to the three points in dexter chief, sinister chief and base): 
( c.1275 )  Le roy de Man, de goule a treys gambes armés […] et en chekun cornere seyt une pee  Eight Rolls 46.19
♦herald.corner (of shield) (referring to the canton and sinister canton): 
( s.xiii; MS: 1606 )  […] le chef palee et les corners geruné  Eight Rolls 89.67
( 1300; MS: s.xiv1 )  L’escu barré au chief palé E les cornieres gyronees  Eight Rolls 111.439
( s.xivm; MS: s.xivex )  Les corners de l’escu sount geroneez  Dean Tract 24
2(of mitre) point: 
( c.1136-65; MS: c.1200 )  De doble mestier ad baillie Ke sa mitre li senefie, Kar doux cornieres ad en sei  Salemon 11539
3mil.wing of an army: 
( 1271-72; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  La premere eschele de gent a pé deit comencer de la premere compaignie e deit estre ordinee en la destre cornere  vegetius2 49.22
corner tur
tur1
pere du corner
corner-stone: 
( 1378 )  le perre du corner de Seinte Eglise  Rot Parl1 iii 32

a.

corner: 
( 1407 )  en la chambre appellé la Corner Chaumbre  Rot Parl1 iii 609

See also:

corn1  cornage1  cornart  corneiz  cornele  corneline  corneman  cornemuse  corneole  corner2  cornier1  cornerhous  cornet  cornil1  cornur 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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