quoin

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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 Piffard, Harold

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

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

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

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