quoin

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He fell on his knees, with his face on his hands in the open quoin drawer, feeling as if he had uttered a blasphemy.

From Despair's Last Journey by Murray, David Christie

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

It was all simple enough till he came to the final part of his task, and attempted to lift out the breech-block, the quoin that when the breech was screwed up held all fast.

From Fitz the Filibuster by Piffard, Harold

The Handspikemen, if there is a quoin, free the quoin and lower the breech, the 2d Captain handling the quoin.

From Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. by United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

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 Franklin, John