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BUCKMINSTER : (Sax.) From totem, beechen, or bugan, to bend, a bow, a corner, round; and minster, a church, a monastery. View the CORNER results.

CORNELL : In the British it signifies a corner, a place shaped like a horn (from the Latin cornu). Corneille, in the French, signifies a crow.

GORING : Local. A battle field, a bloody place, from gore, bloody, and ing. A place in Sussex, England; an angle, a corner.

HIERNE : (Dan.) Local. An angle, a corner.

KEEL : A low, flat-bottomed vessel used in the river Tyne, to convey coals; an inn-sign; a harbor. Kiel, local, a town in Denmark, a corner, wedge, a ravine.

KENT : Local. From the County Kent, in England. Camden derives this from camion, a corner, because England in this place stretches itself into a corner to the north-east. Cant, in Welsh, signifies, round, circular, which is probably the true signification.

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