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Significados de coign en inglés

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clave

The keystone of an arch.

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Examples for "quoin"
Examples for "quoin"
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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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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
Uso de coign en inglés
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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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Nor had she the heart to move to a nearer coign of constructive absence.
The Collectors: Being Cases mostly under the Ninth and Tenth Com...
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There was not a coign of vantage to which the mob did not climb.
The Mark of the Beast
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Indians and French, and British, and Americans have fought for that coign of vantage.
The Valley of Vision : A Book of Romance and Some Half-Told Tale...
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This wonderful coign of vantage Darwin had reached by 1839.
A History of Science — Volume 4
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There is no coign of vantage more effective than the position of young lady cashier.
Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
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Blake eyed the havoc from his coign of vantage with a philosophy tinged with triumph.
Max
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Each held successfully his own coign of vantage.
The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood
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From Johann's coign of vantage everything looked orderly.
The Complete Rama Omnibus
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Buttress, nor coign of vantage but this bird
The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and...
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You are certain that this is so as each coign and niche offers you its particular insight.
The Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of the Exposition: San Francisco,...
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Before the words had well left her lips, Rosalie had sprung to her coign of vantage crying:
Peggy Stewart at School
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