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Significats de coigne en anglès

espanyol
clave

The keystone of an arch.

        clave
        Sinònims
        Examples for "coign"
        Examples for "coign"
        1
        Here he paused, and from his coign of vantage looked and listened.
        Openings in the Old Trail
        2
        An archaic word for 'corner' is 'coign,' whence we get, for example, 'quoin'-
        The system of the world
        3
        From this coign of vantage she could see the entire pattern very well.
        The Complete Rama Omnibus
        4
        Every one hunted some coign of vantage, and many climbed to adjacent roofs.
        Mob Rule in New Orleans / Robert Charles and His Fight to Death,...
        5
        Isidoro's chapel-Thechapel of the Males-Acoign of vantage-The Pala d'oro-Sansovino-S.
        A Wanderer in Venice
        1
        Porter's bed and quoin has been adopted for all carriages requiring quoins.
        Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. / 1866. Fourth...
        2
        An archaic word for 'corner' is 'coign,' whence we get, for example, 'quoin'-
        The system of the world
        3
        H. Elevating screw and lever, with saucer (I) in place of bed and quoin.
        Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. / 1866. Fourth...
        4
        The Handspikemen, if there is a quoin, free the quoin and lower the breech, the 2d Captain handling the quoin.
        Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. / 1866. Fourth...
        5
        This quoin, being graduated to whole degrees, requires a small additional quoin for slight differences of elevation in smooth water.
        Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. / 1866. Fourth...
        Ús de coigne en anglès
        1
        A coigne of land by the sea where the fisher drops hook.
        Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula
        2
        The view from our coigne of vantage was unspeakably grand.
        Mr. Fortescue / An Andean Romance
        3
        What a view there is from this coigne of vantage!
        The Great Lone Land / A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the...
        4
        At every coigne of vantage she found him, or some token of his ceaseless effort.
        Taken Alive
        5
        A Christian Gathering in Corinth.-Itis a strange spectacle we witness from this coigne of vantage.
        The Life of St. Paul
        6
        Every iron beam; every copestone, every coigne of vantage, every oriel window in this honorable edifice is for you!
        David Lockwin—The People's Idol
        7
        She would brave Hester's eagle eye, supposing it could scan Rose's misdeeds from some coigne of vantage commanding this end of the street.
        A Houseful of Girls
        Translations for coigne
        Coigne a través del temps