Look up: quoin

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   Quoin
   Dressed stone at angle of building.
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   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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   Quoin
   dressed stone at corner of building
   Found on http://www.castlexplorer.co.uk/glossary.
   
   
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   Quoin
   The corner of a building; also used of the individual stones (dressed) making up the corner.
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   Quoin
   The external vertical corner of a wall at a doorway, window or corner of a building, which must be built accurately vertical.
   Found on http://www.interbuilders.co.uk/glossary/
   
   
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   Quoin
   Quoins or Cornerstones are the corner stones positioned at the edge of a building wall.
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   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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   quoin
   mechanical wedge used to lock forms in chases before they go to the printing press Category: Printing and publishing
   Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition
   
   
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   Quoin
   Quoins or Cornerstones are the corner stones positioned at the edge of a building wall.
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    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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    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. » 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 ...
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    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 masses of brick laid together, and in a certain im ...
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    quoin
    noun (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
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    Quoin
    Generally, a `quoin` is a wedge, used to support or anchor other items. More specifically, `quoin` may refer to: *In architecture, `quoins` are the corner stones that anchor the edge of the building wall. *In printing, `quoins` are wedges used by printers to hold the hand-set type in place in a printer's chase. It is sometimes claimed that this is the origin and true spelling of the expression `to coin a phrase,` (i.e., `to quoin a phrase`), b...
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    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.) Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building;...
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    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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