Associations to the word «Coigne»

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Wiktionary

COIGNE, noun. Quoin (keystone)
COIGNE, noun. Coign (wedge)
COIGNE, noun. (obsolete) coign; corner; angle

Dictionary definition

COIGNE, noun. Expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase.
COIGNE, noun. The keystone of an arch.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope