Porter's bed and quoin has been adopted for all carriages requiring quoins.

An archaic word for 'corner' is 'coign,' whence we get, for example, 'quoin'-

H. Elevating screw and lever, with saucer (I) in place of bed and quoin.

The Handspikemen, if there is a quoin, free the quoin and lower the breech, the 2d Captain handling the quoin.

This quoin, being graduated to whole degrees, requires a small additional quoin for slight differences of elevation in smooth water.

If one quoin was not enough to secure proper depression, a block or a second quoin was placed below the first.

He fell on his knees, with his face on his hands in the open quoin drawer, feeling as if he had uttered a blasphemy.

Here we saw a flat stone supposed to have been the quoin of a fallen cromlech, and to have been used for sacrificial purposes.

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When there are no housing-chocks the ordinary chocking-quoins may be used as such.

They are suspended from anchors at the hollow quoins, and work very easily.

But Quoin, one of the quarter-gunners, had eyes like a ferret.

Quoin swore by his guns, and slept by their side.

Hence to Quoin Point (Coin-de-Mire) the coast has no sinuosities.

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In the evening of the 10th, the Gunner's Quoin bore N. by E., and False Cape, E.N.E.