quoin
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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 Charles Carleton Coffin
Porter's quoin is 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
"Knock away the quoin, entirely;" he said to the captain of the gun, when he had got the range; "now mind her when she lifts, forward; keep the ship steady, Sir—fire!"
From The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas by James Fenimore Cooper
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 Sir Edward Belcher
If the carriage is fitted with a quoin, handspikemen standing between the handspikes and the side of the ship, place their handspikes on the steps of the carriage and raise the breech.
From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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