Obs. or dial. [a. OF. cornal:—late L. cornāle corner, f. L. cornū, in OF. corn horn, corner. The origin of sense 2 is obscure.]
1. Corner, angle (of a house, etc.).
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., I. 326. The side in longe upon the south thou sprede, The cornel ryse upon the winter sonne [in primo angulo excipiens ortum solis hyberni].
1463. Bury Wills (1850), 22. My cornell hous in the Cook-rowe.
c. 1475. Rauf Coilȝear, 684. The flure … couerit full clene, Cummand fra the Cornellis closand quemely.
1658. Phillips, Cornel, an old word, signifying a corner.
1721. in Bailey.
1850. Bury Wills, Notes 241/2. In the dialect of Herefordshire cornel still signifies a corner.
1879. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., Cornel, a corner.
2. (See quots.)
c. 1490. Promp. Parv., 93 (MS. H). Cornel, frontispicium.
1658. Phillips, Cornel … also the fore-part of a house.
1721. in Bailey.
