Thesaurus: coign

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1. n. expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase
2. n. the keystone of an arch
3. A var. spelling of Coin, Quoin, a corner, wedge; -- chiefly used in the phrase coign of vantage, a position advantageous for action or observation. From some shielded nook or coign of vantage. The Century. The lithosphere would be depressed on four faces; . . . the four projecting coigns would stand up as continents. Nature.
4. A var. spelling of Coin, Quoin, a corner, wedge; -- chieflyused in the phrase coign of vantage, a position advantageous foraction or observation.
5. n expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase n the keystone of an arch