fourchi

See fourché. four-cornered (för körnerd), a. [ They haue a foure - cornered garment, which some put on with the rest when they rise; others, then when they will pray. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 194. Four-cornered cap. See capl. four-corners (fōr'kôr nėrz), n. pl. An old form of the game of bowls in which but four pins are used. See the extract. Four -corners is so called from four large pins which are placed singly at cach angle of a square frame. The excellency of the game consists in beating them down by the fewest casts of the bowl. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 367.