QUOIN
\kwˈɔ͡ɪn], \kwˈɔɪn], \k_w_ˈɔɪ_n]\
Definitions of QUOIN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.
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to support and steady a stone.
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To support the breech of a cannon.
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To wedge or lock up a form within a chase.
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To prevent casks from rolling.
By Oddity Software
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Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.
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to support and steady a stone.
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To support the breech of a cannon.
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To wedge or lock up a form within a chase.
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To prevent casks from rolling.
By Noah Webster.
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(arch.) A wedge used to support and steady a stone: an external angle, esp. of a building: (gun.) a wedge of wood or iron put under the breech of heavy guns or the muzzle of siege mortars to raise them to the proper level: (print.) a wedge used to fasten the types in the forms.
By Daniel Lyons
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An instrument to raise anything; a wedge; a small wooden wedge used by printers to fasten the pages of type; the external angle of a wall. See Coin.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The corners of brick or stone walls in brick buildings, frequently formed of stones, laid in long and short courses; a wedge used to elevate a mortar or gun to a proper level; in printing, a small wedge used to tighten the pages of type within the chase.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [French] A corner;---a wedge ;-a metallic wedge for raising caution and other military engines ;-in printing, a small wooden wedge used to lock the types in the galley, chase, or form ; - any external angle ; especially, the external angle of a building.
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