quoin

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The figure 8 represents what is called a quoin, and keeps the bolster in its place.

From My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Coffin, Charles Carleton

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

If the carriage is fitted with a quoin, handspikemen standing between the handspikes and the side of the ship, place their handspikes on the steps of the carriage and raise the breech.

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

We thus have above the girdle, thirty-three facets: 8 cross, 8 skill, 4 quoin, 8 star, 1 table, and 4 templets.

From The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones by Mastin, John

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