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Coign is an
older spelling of Quoin, and may
refer to:
Coign (architecture),
masonry blocks at the
corner of a wall
Coign (gunnery), a
wedge used in aiming...
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Quoins (/kɔɪn/ or /kwɔɪn/) are
masonry blocks at the
corner of a wall. Some are structural,
providing strength for a wall made with
inferior stone or rubble...
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Coign and
livery or
coyne and
livery (Irish:
coinmheadh is buannacht) in
Gaelic Ireland was the free
entertainment which a
chief exacted from his subjects...
- A
quoin is a
device used to lock
printing type in a
chase in
letterpress printing.
Quoins are
pairs of wedges,
facing opposite directions. A
wrench or...
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Cannon operation required specialised crew and gunners, who were
first enlisted by the
Spanish in the 14th century. The
nature of
cannon operation often...
- doi:10.1021/jf0204102. PMID 12236700.
Ector BJ,
Magee JB,
Hegwood CP,
Coign MJ (1996). "Resveratrol
Concentration in
Muscadine Berries, Juice, Pomace...
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where "champ" is an
obsolete precursor to "chomp", in
current use
coign, as in "
coign of vantage" deserts, as in "just deserts",
although singular "desert"...
- doi:10.1111/1750-3841.13522. PMID 27741360.
Ector BJ,
Magee JB,
Hegwood CP,
Coign MJ (1996). "Resveratrol
Concentration in
Muscadine Berries, Juice, Pomace...
- permission,
Hammond and
Charles Woodford, Blanche's brother,
travel to the
Coign plantation where Hammond purchases a "fightin' ****",
Ganymede (aka Mede)...
- is not known. It may be from Old
French "bois de cuing", as Old
French coign meant wedge, or peak of a helmet. Or it may be from
Gaelic "biodag", the...
