vbl. sb. [f. CORNER v.]
1. Acting or dealing in a corner.
1802. Mar. Edgeworth, Manœuvring (1832), 9. Take care of her asides, and her whisperings, and her cornerings.
2. Comm. The action of making a ‘corner’: see CORNER v. 4. Also attrib.
a. 1860. N. Y. Jrnl. Comm. (Bartlett). The remarkable fluctuations in the stock-market are chiefly the result of a successful cornering operation.
1881. Standard, 14 Sept., 4/7. The iniquitous system of ‘Cornering’ which has crept into the [cotton] trade.
1884. Pall Mall Gaz., 20 Aug., 5/2. Bonds to bearer are not, however, a promising subject for cornerings.
