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| Niger |
a river that flows from Guinea across southern Mali, a corner of Niger, and western Nigeria into the Atlantic. [1/2 definitions] |
| nook |
a corner or small recessed area, esp. in a room. |
| Penzance |
a seaport town in the southwest corner of England and the setting of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, The Pirates of Penzance. |
| pool table |
a billiard table with a pocket at each corner and at the middle of both long sides, on which pool is played. |
| quincunx |
an arrangement of five objects in a square with one in the center and one at each corner. [1/2 definitions] |
| quoin |
a corner of an outside wall. [2/4 definitions] |
| signpost |
a post bearing a sign indicating location, direction, or other information, as at a street corner. [1/2 definitions] |
| sprit |
a pole that extends diagonally from the base of a mast to the uppermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail. |
| squinch1 |
in architecture, an interior corner support, such as an arch or lintel supporting the weight of a spire. |
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