quoin
an external solid angle of a wall or the like.
one of the stones forming it; cornerstone.
any of various bricks of standard shape for forming corners of brick walls or the like.
a wedge-shaped piece of wood, stone, or other material, used for any of various purposes.
Printing. a wedge of wood or metal for securing type in a chase.
to provide with quoins, as a corner of a wall.
to secure or raise with a quoin or wedge.
Origin of quoin
1- Also coign, coigne [koin]. /kɔɪn/.
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How to use quoin in a sentence
It is of dark red brick with gray stone quoins and corners and blue and gray marble pillars.
On the right, the mountains, like so many pyramids, descend in long regular quoins.
A Tour Through The Pyrenees | Hippolyte Adolphe TaineEach wing terminates in a cupola, and the angles have rustic quoins.
The Town | Leigh HuntThe Hempel style of metal quoins are well adapted for this purpose.
Typesetting | A. A. StewartThis is held in place by pushing in a few wooden wedges or quoins.
Typesetting | A. A. Stewart
British Dictionary definitions for quoin
coign or coigne
/ (kwɔɪn, kɔɪn) /
an external corner of a wall
Also called: cornerstone a stone forming the external corner of a wall
another name for keystone (def. 1)
printing a metal or wooden wedge or an expanding mechanical device used to lock type up in a chase
a wedge used for any of various other purposes, such as (formerly) to adjust elevation in muzzle-loading cannon
Origin of quoin
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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