What does cut off a corner mean?

cut off a corner

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.61 in modern English

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"Pioneer seemed now to have the game in his own hands; but the Captain, by taking two desperate leaps, cut off a corner, by which he regained the ground he had lost by the fall, and was up with the grey the remainder of the chase."

cuts off a corner (present, singular) cutting off a corner (participle, present)

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