[f. BY- 3 a + CORNER.] An odd or out-of-the-way corner.

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1565.  Golding, Ovid’s Met., V. (1593), 125. Sinking into blind By-corners.

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1655.  Fuller, Ch. Hist., I. i. 2. Britain being a by-Corner, out of the Road of the World.

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1792.  Anecd. W. Pitt, I. v. 127. Ready money … locked up in iron chests or hid in bye-corners.

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1857.  Geo. Eliot, Sc. Cleric. Life, II. 198. No longer a nuisance existing merely in by-corners.

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