quoin

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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

The level mark on the quoin is to correspond with the end of the bed.

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

If one quoin was not enough to secure proper depression, a block or a second quoin was placed below the first.

From Artillery Through the Ages A Short Illustrated History of Cannon, Emphasizing Types Used in America by Manucy, Albert

The larger one is quoin shaped, and has a remarkable perforation, seen in the sketch.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 537, March 10, 1832 by Various

Mount Trafalgar made its first appearance in the form of a huge quoin or wedge, resting longitudinally upon the horizon, with its point towards the south-east.

From Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. With an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During The Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in the Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative Of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits to the Islands in the Arafura Sea. by Stokes, John Lort