Cornish

Quick meaning: Cornish is a noun meaning One of several decorative rings around the barrel of a cannon; the next ring from the muzzle backwards.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (architecture) Alternative form of cornice.
2. cornlike; resembling corn

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

Word Forms

• cornishes

Related Words

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