Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Cornering"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Corner \Cor"ner\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cornered} (-n?rd); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Cornering}.]
1. To drive into a corner.
2. To drive into a position of great difficulty or hopeless
embarrassment; as, to corner a person in argument.
3. To get command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be
able to put one's own price on it; as, to corner the
shares of a railroad stock; to corner petroleum.
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