Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An L-shaped casting or forging used to strengthen a joint.
  • noun In bookbinding, same as corner, 6 .

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Examples

  • "It was a corner-piece, I'm afraid," said Vanna, with great calmness;

    Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso Maurice Henry Hewlett

  • One corner-piece represents the first Abbots of St. Claude building the Abbey, and comical little devils perched on trees pelting them with stones.

    Holidays in Eastern France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877

  • Perry Shaw for me -- no, he comes puffin 'up to me himself -- because a big corner-piece o' the bank had slipped into the brook where she makes that elber at the bottom o 'the Seventeen Acre, an' all the rubbishy alders an 'sallies which he ought to have cut out when he took the farm, they'd slipped with the slip, an' the brook was comin 'rooshin' down atop of 'em, an 'they'd just about back an' spill the waters over his winter wheat.

    A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "We can make a lovely corner-piece out of it; there's all those limestones down in the yard, and some of them are such pretty shapes, that will look lovely set in moss, with vines going over them.

    Six Girls A Home Story Fannie Belle Irving

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