quoin

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Here we saw a flat stone supposed to have been the quoin of a fallen cromlech, and to have been used for sacrificial purposes.

From From John O'Groats to Land's End by Naylor, Robert

"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 Cooper, James Fenimore

The order to adjust the quoin in great-gun exercise; to depress the muzzle to point at an object below the level, in contradistinction to elevate.

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

A sentinel started out from the quoin of a wall to stop us, but when we had told our errand he became as friendly as a brother.

From Helmet of Navarre by Runkle, Bertha

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