corner kick | a free kick from the corner awarded to the other side when a player has sent the ball behind his own goal line |
burning burning at the stake | execution by fire |
American bittern stake driver Botaurus lentiginosus | a kind of bittern |
amen corner | area reserved for persons leading the responsive `amens' |
blind corner | a street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving |
chimney corner inglenook | a corner by a fireplace |
corner street corner turning point | the intersection of two streets, standing on the corner watching all the girls go by |
corner quoin | (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building, especially one formed by a cornerstone |
corner nook | an interior angle formed by two meeting walls, a piano was in one corner of the room |
corner pocket | a pocket at the corner of a billiard table |
corner post | a square post supporting a structural member at the corner of a building |
stake | a strong wooden or metal post with a point at one end so it can be driven into the ground |
stake | instrument of execution consisting of a vertical post that a victim is tied to for burning |
post stake | a pole or stake set up to mark something (as the start or end of a race track), a pair of posts marked the goal, the corner of the lot was indicated by a stake |
stake race | a horse race in which part of the prize is put up by the owners of the horses in the race |
corner | the point where two lines meet or intersect, the corners of a rectangle |
corner | a place off to the side of an area, he tripled to the rightfield corner, the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean |
corner | a remote area, in many corners of the world they still practice slavery |
corner | the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect, the corners of a cube |
corner | a projecting part where two sides or edges meet, he knocked off the corners |
end man corner man | a man at one end of line of performers in a minstrel show, carries on humorous dialogue with the interlocutor |
interest stake | (law) a right or legal share of something, a financial involvement with something, they have interests all over the world, a stake in the company's future |
stake stakes bet wager | the money risked on a gamble |
recess recession niche corner | a small concavity |
corner box | a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible, his lying got him into a tight corner |
corner | a temporary monopoly on a kind of commercial trade, a corner on the silver market |
bet on back gage stake game punt | place a bet on, Which horse are you backing?, I'm betting on the new horse |
impale stake | kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole, the enemies were impaled and left to die |
stake post | mark with a stake, stake out the path |
stake | tie or fasten to a stake, stake your goat |
corner | turn a corner, the car corners |
corner tree | force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape |
corner | gain control over, corner the gold market |
venture hazard adventure stake jeopardize | put at risk, I will stake my good reputation for this |
clandestine cloak-and-dagger hole-and-corner(a) hugger-mugger hush-hush secret surreptitious undercover underground | conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods, clandestine intelligence operations, cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines, hole-and-corner intrigue, secret missions, a secret agent, secret sales of arms, surreptitious mobilization of troops, an undercover investigation, underground resistance |
catacorner cata-cornered catercorner cater-cornered catty-corner catty-cornered kitty-corner kitty-cornered | slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line, set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot |
hole-and-corner hole-in-corner | relating to the peripheral and unimportant aspects of life, a hole-and-corner life in some obscure community- H.G.Wells |
at stake | to be won or lost, at risk, perhaps a million dollars are at stake |
at stake | in question or at issue, there is more at stake than your modesty |