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Significados de quoin em inglês

espanhol
clave

The keystone of an arch.

        clave

        (Architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone.

              Uso de quoin em inglês
              1
              Porter's bed and quoin has been adopted for all carriages requiring quoins.
              Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. / 1866. Fourth...
              2
              An archaic word for 'corner' is 'coign,' whence we get, for example, 'quoin'-
              The system of the world
              3
              H. Elevating screw and lever, with saucer (I) in place of bed and quoin.
              Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. / 1866. Fourth...
              4
              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...
              5
              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...
              6
              If one quoin was not enough to secure proper depression, a block or a second quoin was placed below the first.
              Artillery Through the Ages / A Short Illustrated History of Cann...
              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.
              Despair's Last Journey
              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.
              From John O'Groats to Land's End / Or, 1372 miles on foot; A boo...
              9
              Patrons can purchase award-winning Quoin Rock wine by the glass or bottle.
              The South African
              10
              When there are no housing-chocks the ordinary chocking-quoins may be used as such.
              Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. / 1866. Fourth...
              11
              They are suspended from anchors at the hollow quoins, and work very easily.
              Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
              12
              But Quoin, one of the quarter-gunners, had eyes like a ferret.
              White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
              13
              Quoin swore by his guns, and slept by their side.
              White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
              14
              Hence to Quoin Point (Coin-de-Mire) the coast has no sinuosities.
              Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of...
              15
              Quoin Rock Wine Estate Picnic at Quoin Rock.
              The South African
              16
              In the evening of the 10th, the Gunner's Quoin bore N. by E., and False Cape, E.N.E.
              A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume ...
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