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

Back's Inlet presents on each side a succession of lofty precipitous headlands, which have the shape termed, by seamen, "the gunner's quoin."

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

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

A third slid a quoin along the "bed" of the carriage, under the gun, to support it at the required height.

From On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. by Masefield, John

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