Usually means: Diagonally opposite from each other.
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  1. cater-corner, cater-corner: Collins English Dictionary
  2. cater-corner: Wiktionary
  3. cater-corner: Dictionary.com
  4. cater-corner: TheFreeDictionary.com
  5. cater-corner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Definitions from Wiktionary (cater-corner)

adjective:  (US, Canada) Of or pertaining to something at a diagonal to another; of four corners, those diagonal to another.
adjective:  (UK dialect, obsolete) Uneven, not square, as mislaid stones or people with a limping gait.
adverb:  (US, Canada) Diagonally across from.

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