cornish meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

Cornish

adjalso spelled Cornish

UK /ˈkɔː.nɪʃ/ · US /ˈkɔɹ.nɪʃ/

Etymology From Corn(wall) + -ish, from Cornish Kernewek, Kernowek.

Of or pertaining to Cornwall, a county of southwest England.

Native to Cornwall.

Of or pertaining to the Cornish language.

Derived terms: Cornish acre, Cornish boiler, Cornish diamond, Cornish elm, Cornish game hen, Cornish hen, Cornishman, Cornish palm, Cornish pasty, Cornish sole, Cornish stone, Cornishwoman, Cornish wrestling

noun

Etymology From Corn(wall) + -ish, from Cornish Kernewek, Kernowek.

Collective The inhabitants of Cornwall, especially native-born.

noun

One of several decorative rings around the barrel of a cannon; the next ring from the muzzle backwards.

Architecture Alternative Alternative form of cornice.

So the curve of Stonehenge, which is above 100 English feet, appears extraordinary large and well proportion'd, upon a height of 18 foot, which reaches to the top of the outer cornish; that of the inner cornishes is but 24 foot high, at a medium. For the cornishes of the inner part of Stonehenge, or that which Webb calls the cell, are not all of equal height, of which in proper place.1730, William Stukeley, Stonehenge: A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, page 11:
The four rooms in the length of this building have door places crown'd with double cornishes, as represented in the plate of that architecture, together with ornaments of the winged globe.1743, Richard Pococke, A Description of the East and Some Other Countries, page 63:

1 more example

And all the way along the edges here we'll be putting in cornishes. They're under the scaffolding there in the corner, you can take a look. These are six-inch cornishes.2009, Ivan Vladislavic, Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked, page 114:

adj

Etymology From corn + -ish.

cornlike; resembling corn

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