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Definition of Coign
1. Noun. Expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase.
2. Noun. The keystone of an arch.
Definition of Coign
1. n. A var. spelling of Coin, Quoin, a corner, wedge; -- chiefly used in the phrase coign of vantage, a position advantageous for action or observation.
Definition of Coign
1. Noun. A projecting corner or angle. ¹
2. Noun. A wedge used in typesetting ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coign
1. to quoin [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: quoin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coign
Literary usage of Coign
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. With Plumer in Matabeleland: An Account of the Operations of the by Frank W. Sykes, C. G. Löwinger (1897)
"... A coign OF VANTAGE. Trooper Bennett, on picket duty during the night, was
fired on at his post when the attack first commenced. ..."
2. Notes of an Indian Journey by Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff (1876)
"Of course I had many questions to put to General Schneider with respect to the
political circumstances of this strange " coign of vantage ; " and as his ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1899)
"South of the Scandinavian coign are the transverse east and western chains of the
... South of the North American coign we have again a pair of east-west ..."
4. Hellenica: A Collection of Essays on Greek Poetry, Philosophy, History, and by Evelyn Abbott (1880)
"The temples, the amphitheatres, the colonnades, which glittered on every crest
and coign of the holy island, have sunk into decay. ..."
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