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by-corner|ˈbaɪˌkɔːnə(r)|
[f. by- 3 a + corner.]
An odd or out-of-the-way corner.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. v. (1593) 125 Sinking into blind By-corners. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. i. i. 2 Britain being a by-Corner, out of the Road of the World. 1792Anecd. W. Pitt I. v. 127 Ready money..locked up in iron chests or hid in bye-corners. 1857Geo. Eliot Scenes Clerical Life II. 198 No longer a nuisance existing merely in by-corners. |