Definition of "cornering"
The act by which somebody is cornered.
Quotations
Aside; ay, ay, but take care, I advise you, of her asides, and her whisperings, and her cornerings, and her inuendoes, and semiconfidences, lest your own happiness, my dear, unsuspecting, enthusiastic daughter, should be the sacrifice.
1809-1812, Maria Edgeworth, "Manoeuvring", in Tales of Fashionable Life