Noun: quoin koyn
- Expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase
"The printer adjusted the quoin to secure the type in place";
- coign, coigne
- The keystone of an arch
"The quoin was carefully placed to complete the archway";
- coign, coigne
- (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building; especially one formed by a cornerstone
"The quoin of the old stone building was intricately carved";
- corner
- Provide with quoins
"They quoined the corners of the building with decorative stonework"
Sounds like: coin, coign, coigne
Derived forms: quoins, quoining, quoined
Type of: construction, headstone, key, keystone, structure, wedge
Encyclopedia: Quoin