"cornering" meaning in English

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        "A piece of decorative work forming a corner."
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          "text": "1809-1812, Maria Edgeworth, \"Manoeuvring\", in Tales of Fashionable Life\nAside; ay, ay, but take care, I advise you, of her asides, and her whisperings, and her cornerings, and her inuendoes, and semiconfidences, lest your own happiness, my dear, unsuspecting, enthusiastic daughter, should be the sacrifice."
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        "The act by which somebody is cornered."
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