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Coign

noun
1.
Expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase.  Synonyms: coigne, quoin.
2.
The keystone of an arch.  Synonyms: coigne, quoin.






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"Coign" Quotes from Famous Books



... summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved masonry that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze. Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle: Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, The air ...
— The Writings of John Burroughs • John Burroughs



Words linked to "Coign" :   key, wedge, keystone, headstone



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