quoin
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In great-gun exercise, the order which prepares for adjusting the quoin.
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
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 Harold Piffard
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
First give the elevation by applying the quadrant to the face of the piece, and adjusting the quoin or ratchet until the required number of degrees is obtained.
From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
Carriage complete, with bed and quoin, or elevating screw At its port.
From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance
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