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Meanings of quoin 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
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 quoin in English
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.
6
If one quoin was not enough to secure proper depression, a block or a second quoin was placed below the first.
7
He fell on his knees, with his face on his hands in the open quoin drawer, feeling as if he had uttered a blasphemy.
8
Here we saw a flat stone supposed to have been the quoin of a fallen cromlech, and to have been used for sacrificial purposes.
9
Patrons can purchase award-winning Quoin Rock wine by the glass or bottle.
10
When there are no housing-chocks the ordinary chocking-quoins may be used as such.
11
They are suspended from anchors at the hollow quoins, and work very easily.
12
But Quoin, one of the quarter-gunners, had eyes like a ferret.
13
Quoin swore by his guns, and slept by their side.
14
Hence to Quoin Point (Coin-de-Mire) the coast has no sinuosities.
15
Quoin Rock Wine Estate Picnic at Quoin Rock.
16
In the evening of the 10th, the Gunner's Quoin bore N. by E., and False Cape, E.N.E.
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