Look up: quoin

1. Quoin
   Dressed stone at angle of building.
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2. quoin
   [n] - expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase 2. [n] - the keystone of an arch
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3. Quoin
   dressed stone at corner of building
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4. Quoin
   The corner of a building; also used of the individual stones (dressed) making up the corner.
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5. Quoin
   The external vertical corner of a wall at a doorway, window or corner of a building, which must be built accurately vertical.
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6. Quoin
   Quoins or Cornerstones are the corner stones positioned at the edge of a building wall.
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7. Quoin
   The stones at the corner of a building, often distinctive of a building style. Escomb style is alternating long and short sides of stones - this can be seen on Anglo-Saxon churches at Escomb (County Durham) and partly surviving at Whittingham (Northumberland).
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8. quoin
   mechanical wedge used to lock forms in chases before they go to the printing press Category: Printing and publishing
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9. Quoin
   In architecture, large, sometimes rusticated, and usually slightly projecting stone blocks that form the corners of the exterior walls of masonry buildings to provide structural strength. R
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10. Quoin
    Quoin (kwoin or koin; 277) noun [ See Coin , and confer Coigne .] 1. (Architecture) Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked. &#x...
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11. quoin
    1. Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked. ... In stone, the quoins consist of blocks larger than those used in the rest of the building, and cut to dimension. In brickwork, quoins consist of groups or...
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12. quoin
    noun (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
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13. Quoin
    • (n.) To prevent casks from rolling. • (n.) to support and steady a stone. • (n.) To support the breech of a cannon. • (n.) A wedgelike piece of stone, wood metal, or other material, used for various purposes • (n.) To wedge or lock up a form within a chase. • (n.) Ori...
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14. quoin
    in Western architecture, both the external angle or corner of a building and, more often, one of the stones used to form that angle. These ...
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15. Quoin
    In architecture a quoin was originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building. Now the term is commonly applied to one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked. In stone, the quoins consist of blocks larger than those used in the rest of the building, and cut to dimension....
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16. Quoin
    (architecture) , Rome. `Quoins` are the cornerstones of brick or page=385-->--> Quoins may be either structural or decorative. Architects and builders use quoins to give the impression of strength and firmness to the outline of a building. Rough-finished or rusticated masonry is also frequent...
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