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Significados de quoin em inglês

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clave

The keystone of an arch.

clave

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

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Examples for "corner"
Examples for "corner"
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As a result, David Breen moves out to the right corner forward.
The Irish Times
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The voice of the tall stranger in the corner broke in here:
Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil
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Request corner room 814 on the top floor for a great view.
The Guardian
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We've come to the street corner where reality and virtual reality meet.
Wired
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Arsenal win a corner after good work by Smicer on the left.
The Guardian
Uso de quoin em inglês
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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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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...
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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
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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
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When there are no housing-chocks the ordinary chocking-quoins may be used as such.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. / 1866. Fourth...
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They are suspended from anchors at the hollow quoins, and work very easily.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
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But Quoin, one of the quarter-gunners, had eyes like a ferret.
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
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Quoin swore by his guns, and slept by their side.
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
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Hence to Quoin Point (Coin-de-Mire) the coast has no sinuosities.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of...
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Quoin Rock Wine Estate Picnic at Quoin Rock.
The South African
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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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Quoin ao longo do tempo