cornish

plural cornishes

1. One of several decorative rings around the barrel of a cannon; the next ring from the muzzle backwards.
2. alternativearchitectureAlternative form of cornice.

   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.

   2009, Ivan Vladislavic, Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked, page 114

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   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.

   1730, William Stukeley, Stonehenge: A Temple Restor'd to the British Druids, page 11

   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.

   1743, Richard Pococke, A Description of the East and Some Other Countries, page 63

1. cornlike; resembling corn

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to Cornwall, a county of southwest England.
2. not comparableNative to Cornwall.
3. not comparableOf or pertaining to the Cornish language.

1. collectivepluralplural onlyThe inhabitants of Cornwall, especially native-born.

   Synonyms: Cornishman, Cornubian

plural Cornishes

1. uncountableThe Celtic language of Cornwall, related to Welsh and Breton.

   There is a movement to revive Cornish.

2. A place in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Weld County, Colorado.
   2. countableuncountableA town and census-designated place therein, in York County, Maine.
   3. countableuncountableA township in Aitkin County, Minnesota.
   4. countableuncountableA township in Sibley County, Minnesota.
   5. countableuncountableA town in Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
   6. countableuncountableA town in Jefferson County, Oklahoma.
   7. countableuncountableA town in Cache County, Utah, at the border with Idaho.
3. countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English [in turn originating as an ethnonym], referring to someone from Cornwall.