The cornering chisel is used for square corners, situated so that the hot chisel cannot be used.
Sidenote: Corners] The immense difficulty of cornering any of the larger articles of commerce was not so well appreciated in the earlier time as it is now.
Accordingly, one Ambrose Höchstetter of Augsburg [Sidenote: 1528] conceived the ambitious project of cornering the whole supply of the world.
I will confess that when my uncle talked of cornering quinine, I had a clear impression that any one who contrived to do that would pretty certainly go to gaol.
The idea of cornering a drug struck upon my mind then as a sort of irresponsible monkey trick that no one would ever be permitted to do in reality.
I guess dad's try at cornering wheat was about the most profitable thing that ever happened--to the other fellows.
Daddy and grandpa are busy in there cornering wheat.
Photographing a Charging Elephant, Cornering a Wounded Elephant in a River Jungle Growth.
Since a strike is an effort to produce a corner in the labor market, it will succeed in the end sought only when conditions for cornering the market are favorable.
If in any case they are not, it is because of government monopoly cornering the market, or because of unnatural conditions of government production undermining the market.
I will confess that when my uncle talked of cornering quinine, I had a clear impression that any one who contrived to do that would pretty certainly go to jail.
Mr. Keynes ignores the fortunes made by deliberatelycornering and withholding commodities in a time of shortage.
At the time of the Turco-Russian War he and two Milwaukee men had succeeded in cornering all the visible supply of spring wheat.
These two adventurous spirits had now to be tackled separately, and the cornering of De Wet came first in Lord Roberts's programme.
Men were found practising several professions, cornering raw materials and carrying on clandestine sales below the fixed tariffs; illegal practices for securing clients or for enticing away a colleague's workmen became common.
The Farmers' League can do the cornering and hold it for higher prices.
Then, too, corneringthe cotton market here means the whip-hand of the industrial world.
Do you think there's the slightest chance of cornering cotton and buying the Black Belt if the niggers are unwilling to work under present conditions?
The small mills had not been able to buy cotton when it was low because Cresswell was cornering it in the name of the Farmers' League; now that it was high they could not afford to, and many surrendered to the trust.
Lifting and carrying and shoving; cornering and taping and lacing--it seemed as though the afternoon would never wear to an end.
When I had finished, Phoebe stopped her cornering and Mrs. Smith looked up from her label-pasting.
Enormous fortunes have been made, at the public expense, by the practical cornering of staple commodities.
They have never succeeded in cornering the labor market, and there seems to be no prospect of their succeeding.
And soon the great, cornering Tower frowned black and menacing before them.
Two sentinels paced back and forth between cornering guardhouses, with the pickets of the mounted patrols just beyond.
Ninthly, a keen contest of nationalisms, land-grabbing and cornering of raw materials renders friendly relations between the thirty States of Europe extremely difficult.
By a system of treaties France has created a military alliance with Belgium and Poland, thus completely cornering Germany.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cornering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: buy; corner; marketing; monopoly; shopping
