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Meanings of coign in English
Synonyms
Examples for "quoin"
Examples for "quoin"
1
Porter's bed and quoin has been adopted for all carriages requiring quoins.
2
An archaic word for 'corner' is 'coign,' whence we get, for example, 'quoin'-
3
H. Elevating screw and lever, with saucer (I) in place of bed and quoin.
4
The Handspikemen, if there is a quoin, free the quoin and lower the breech, the 2d Captain handling the quoin.
5
This quoin, being graduated to whole degrees, requires a small additional quoin for slight differences of elevation in smooth water.
1
A coigne of land by the sea where the fisher drops hook.
2
The view from our coigne of vantage was unspeakably grand.
3
What a view there is from this coigne of vantage!
4
At every coigne of vantage she found him, or some token of his ceaseless effort.
5
A Christian Gathering in Corinth.-Itis a strange spectacle we witness from this coigne of vantage.
Usage of coign in English
1
Here he paused, and from his coign of vantage looked and listened.
2
An archaic word for 'corner' is 'coign,' whence we get, for example, 'quoin'-
3
From this coign of vantage she could see the entire pattern very well.
4
Every one hunted some coign of vantage, and many climbed to adjacent roofs.
5
Isidoro's chapel-Thechapel of the Males-Acoign of vantage-The Pala d'oro-Sansovino-S.
6
Nor had she the heart to move to a nearer coign of constructive absence.
7
There was not a coign of vantage to which the mob did not climb.
8
Indians and French, and British, and Americans have fought for that coign of vantage.
9
This wonderful coign of vantage Darwin had reached by 1839.
10
There is no coign of vantage more effective than the position of young lady cashier.
11
Blake eyed the havoc from his coign of vantage with a philosophy tinged with triumph.
12
Each held successfully his own coign of vantage.
13
From Johann's coign of vantage everything looked orderly.
14
Buttress, nor coign of vantage but this bird
15
You are certain that this is so as each coign and niche offers you its particular insight.
16
Before the words had well left her lips, Rosalie had sprung to her coign of vantage crying:
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