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Meanings of coigne in English
Synonyms
Examples for "coign"
Examples for "coign"
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.
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.
Usage of coigne in English
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.
6
Every iron beam; every copestone, every coigne of vantage, every oriel window in this honorable edifice is for you!
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.