Wort des Tages
25 March 2026
pincushion corner
nounVermessung
A place where several surveyors have set markers, all purporting to mark the same property corner.
Warum dieses Wort
The name is literal: the spot bristles with iron like a pincushion, one pin per surveyor's opinion. Extra markers do not average out to the truth; the corner is resolved by evidence and record, not by a headcount of rebar.
In use
We hit a pincushion corner out there, four rods inside a two foot circle, so nobody's setting anything until I pull the old plats.
Written by our editors to show how the term is used, not a recorded quotation.