▪ I. coining, vbl. n.1
(ˈkɔɪnɪŋ)
[f. coin v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb coin.
1. lit. a. The making of coin; minting.
| 1548 Wriothesley Chron. (1877) II. 7 A French man being prisoner..for quoyning of testornes. 1605 Shakes. Lear iv. vi. 83 They cannot touch me for coyning [Ff. crying]. I am the King himselfe. 1691 Locke Money Wks. 1727 II. 68 The Coining of Silver, or making Money of it, is the ascertaining of its Quantity by a publick Mark, the better to fit it for Commerce. 1876 Mathews Coinage i. 7 The hammer and die continued to be the only instruments used in coining until the middle of the 16th century. |
b. Shaping of metal in a coining press (see quot. 1968).
| 1940 J. D. Jevons Metall. Deep Drawing xv. 561 It is now usual to give the pressed or deep-drawn article one or more final squeezing operations between dies, a process closely akin to that of ‘coining’. 1968 Gloss. Terms Mechanized & Hand Sheet Metal Work (B.S.I.) 6 Coining. 1. A final squeezing operation, with a punch and die, to give accuracy of dimensions. 2. An operation whereby a pattern is impressed by a punch. |
2. fig. Deliberate invention, fabrication.
| a 1680 Butler Rem. (1759) II. 123 He was..forced to fall to coining, and was Several Months before he could light on one [Name] that pleased him. 1712 Addison Spect. No. 285 There are in Milton several Words of his own Coining. 1858 Doran Crt. Fools 96 The coining of bitter jests. |
3. attrib. and Comb., as coining-house, coining-irons, coining-stamps. coining press, (a) a press for making coin (see quot. 1688); (b) a punch press in which metal is pressed to a required size, or embossed, etc.
| 1529 W. Frankeleyn in Fiddes Wolsey (1726) ii. 168 We must have many moo coyning yrons. 1688 Lond. Gaz. No. 2352/4 One Valentine Cogswell had set up a Coining-Press. Ibid. No. 2366/4 Three pair of Coyning Stamps. 1824 R. Stuart Hist. Steam Engine 187 Constructing coining apparatus for the Peruvian mint. a 1877 Knight Dict. Mech. I. 592/1 Coining-press, a power lever-screw press by which the planchet of metal is impressed with the design or legend. 1880 Mackintosh Hist. Civiliz. Scotl. II. xix. 337 They came to the Coining-house and gave security. 1925 Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXII. 448 The adaptation of the coining-press to the manufacture of such parts as forged arms and levers. |
▪ II. † coining, vbl. n.2 Arch.
In 5 coyning.
Another form of quoining, corner-work.
| 1430 Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xi, The ryche coyning, the lusty tablementes. |
▪ III. coining, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That coins (lit. and fig.; see the verb).
| 1629 Massinger Picture ii. ii, Some..whose coining heads Are the mints of all new fashions. 1756–7 tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 383 The coining cities have struck medals. |