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Significats de quoin en anglès

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clave

The keystone of an arch.

clave

(Architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone.

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Examples for "coign"
Examples for "coign"
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Here he paused, and from his coign of vantage looked and listened.
Openings in the Old Trail
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An archaic word for 'corner' is 'coign,' whence we get, for example, 'quoin'-
The system of the world
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From this coign of vantage she could see the entire pattern very well.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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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,...
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Isidoro's chapel-Thechapel of the Males-Acoign of vantage-The Pala d'oro-Sansovino-S.
A Wanderer in Venice
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A coigne of land by the sea where the fisher drops hook.
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii: The Sacred Songs of the Hula
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The view from our coigne of vantage was unspeakably grand.
Mr. Fortescue / An Andean Romance
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What a view there is from this coigne of vantage!
The Great Lone Land / A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the...
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At every coigne of vantage she found him, or some token of his ceaseless effort.
Taken Alive
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A Christian Gathering in Corinth.-Itis a strange spectacle we witness from this coigne of vantage.
The Life of St. Paul
Ús de quoin en anglès
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Porter's bed and quoin has been adopted for all carriages requiring quoins.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. / 1866. Fourth...
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An archaic word for 'corner' is 'coign,' whence we get, for example, 'quoin'-
The system of the world
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H. Elevating screw and lever, with saucer (I) in place of bed and quoin.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. / 1866. Fourth...
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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...
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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...
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If one quoin was not enough to secure proper depression, a block or a second quoin was placed below the first.
Artillery Through the Ages / A Short Illustrated History of Cann...
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He fell on his knees, with his face on his hands in the open quoin drawer, feeling as if he had uttered a blasphemy.
Despair's Last Journey
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Here we saw a flat stone supposed to have been the quoin of a fallen cromlech, and to have been used for sacrificial purposes.
From John O'Groats to Land's End / Or, 1372 miles on foot; A boo...
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Patrons can purchase award-winning Quoin Rock wine by the glass or bottle.
The South African
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When there are no housing-chocks the ordinary chocking-quoins may be used as such.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. / 1866. Fourth...
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They are suspended from anchors at the hollow quoins, and work very easily.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
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But Quoin, one of the quarter-gunners, had eyes like a ferret.
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
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Quoin swore by his guns, and slept by their side.
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
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Hence to Quoin Point (Coin-de-Mire) the coast has no sinuosities.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of...
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Quoin Rock Wine Estate Picnic at Quoin Rock.
The South African
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In the evening of the 10th, the Gunner's Quoin bore N. by E., and False Cape, E.N.E.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume ...
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Translations for quoin
Quoin a través del temps