quoin

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The gun must therefore be laid by the quoin and pendulum.

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

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

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

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir