quoin
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He fell on his knees, with his face on his hands in the open quoin drawer, feeling as if he had uttered a blasphemy.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
A very picturesque view was obtained of the Rocky Mountains, and we saw the entire outline of their peaked hills, table-land, and quoin shaped terminations.
From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by John Franklin
We thus have above the girdle, thirty-three facets: 8 cross, 8 skill, 4 quoin, 8 star, 1 table, and 4 templets.
From The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones by John Mastin
As soon as the quoin is free, the 2d Captain takes hold of it with both hands and withdraws the quoin to the full extent; handspikemen "raise" or "lower" the gun slowly and steadily.
From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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 Alexander Mackenzie
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