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Definition of Cornerman
1. Noun. (boxing) A coach, trainer or other assistant who attends to a boxer between rounds. ¹
2. Noun. (basketball) A player who can play both the small forward and power forward positions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cornerman
1. [n CORNERMEN]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornerman
Literary usage of Cornerman
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"The Gentleman in the corner cornerman (trying to be polite). ... cornerman.
Oh,—Egypt, of course. I didn t know we had any troops there-^-Dr—that is ..."
2. Peacham's Compleat Gentleman, 1634 by Henry Peacham (1906)
"The right hand cornerman muft Hand fir me, the left WM,,\* cornerman muft ...
had before they moved; when the next l.ta.ier unto the righthand cornerman ..."
3. Recollections of Life in Ohio: From 1813-1840 by William Cooper Howells (1895)
"At the raisings I would take the position of cornerman, if the building was not
too heavy, as it was a post of honor, and my head was steady when high up ..."
4. The Canada Law Journal by William S. Hein & Company (1889)
"The family relationships arising in such a case would give fine scope for the
ingenuity of the cornerman conundrum- inventor of negro minstrelsy. ..."
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