Quoin
a wedge-shaped block. Specifically, in gunnery, a wedge-shaped block of wood, having a handle inserted in its thicker extremity; used in some cases for giving the proper elevation to guns. In printing, one of the wedges by which the pages or columns of type are locked in a chase, ready for printing.
Nautically, a wedge used as a chock in' stowing casks, to prevent rolling. In masonry, an external angle of a wall; particularly an ashlar or brick corner projecting beyond the general faces of the walls which meet at the angle. Rustic quoins are rusticated ashlars forming external ternal projecting projecting corners, the mainder of the wall being of ordinary masonry, rubble, or brick, with occasional piers of masonry. re-