quoin

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I should have liked to see you when you were making for the side all top-heavy, and went flying over after the great quoin as you called it.

From Fitz the Filibuster by Piffard, Harold

My knees No che quoin noh Ni gui tick.

From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I by Mackenzie, Alexander

The piece of wood between the cheeks or brackets which, with the intervention of the quoin, supports the breech of the gun.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Porter's bed and quoin has been adopted for all carriages requiring quoins.

From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

The figure 8 represents what is called a quoin, and keeps the bolster in its place.

From My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Coffin, Charles Carleton