▪ I. quoining
(ˈkɔɪnɪŋ)
Also 6 quenynge.
[f. quoin n. + -ing1. Cf. coining vbl. n.2]
The stone or brick-work forming the quoin of a wall, or the manner in which this is placed.
| 1562–3 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 567 Stone..new wrought..to ashler and quenynge. 1848 Rickman Styles Archit. Eng. App. p. iv, There is a peculiar sort of quoining,..consisting of a long stone set at the corner and a short one lying on it, and bonding one way or both into the wall. 1876 Archæol. Cant. X. lii, The quoining of the nave and chancel. |
▪ II. quoining
obs. form of coining vbl. n.1