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coign
▪ I. coign, v. Variant of coin v.2, quoin. Hence coigned pa. pple., furnished with coigns or corner-stones, quoined. coigning, furnishing with coigns; coigns collectively; quoining.1801 Coxe Tour Monmouth. I. 49 Built of rubble, but coigned with hewn stones. 1889 Athenæum 3 Aug. 169/3 The Saxon coig... Oxford English Dictionary
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Coign
Coign is an older spelling of Quoin, and may refer to: Coign (architecture), masonry blocks at the corner of a wall Coign (gunnery), a wedge used in aiming a cannon Coign (printing), wooden or metal wedges used for locking printing type into a chase A coign, in Crystallography, is the point at wikipedia.org
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Coign and livery
Coign and livery or coyne and livery () in Gaelic Ireland was the free entertainment which a chief exacted from his subjects for his servants and followers wikipedia.org
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quinnet
quinnet dial. (ˈkwɪnət) Also 9 quinet. [a. OF. quignet, var. coignet, dim. of coign, coin a wedge, quoin.] A wedge (see quots.).1684 J. Beaumont in Phil. Trans. XV. 854 A little Iron wedge 4 inches in length, by the Miners call'd a Quinnet. 1847–78 Halliwell, Quinet, a wedge. Glouc. [1890 in Glouc. ... Oxford English Dictionary
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UPPER HAND Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
Synonyms for UPPER HAND: advantage, edge, high ground, inside track, opportunity, odds, whip hand, coign of vantage; Antonyms of UPPER HAND: minus, liability, penalty ...
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Raven Society
13 West Range, which they had furnished with "a settee from the Allan home in Richmond" as well as "a real raven, stuffed, [which] looked down from a coign wikipedia.org
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coin
▪ I. coin, n. (kɔɪn) Forms: α. 4–7 coyne, 4–8 coyn, (5 cune), 6–7 coine, 6– coin. β. 4–6 coygne, 5–6 coigne; see also coign. γ. 6 quoyne, qwyne, qwoyne, 7 quoin; see also quoin. δ. For the Sc. forms, see cunye. [a. F. coin wedge, corner; also die for stamping money or medals; ‘also, a coyne, or stam... Oxford English Dictionary
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VANTAGE Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words - Merriam-Webster
Synonyms for VANTAGE: advantage, edge, opportunity, odds, stead, jump, privilege, coign of vantage; Antonyms of VANTAGE: disadvantage, drawback, liability, penalty ...
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Mary Hannah Krout
Rice (1908) Platters and Pipkins’ (1908) The Coign of Vantage (1909) She also assisted Susan Wallace with the completion of Lew Wallace's Autobiography wikipedia.org
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vantage
▪ I. vantage, n. (ˈvɑːntɪdʒ, -ˈvæn-) Also 4–7 vauntage, 6 vauntadge; 5–6 Sc. wantage, 7–8 'vantage. [a. AF. vantage (1302), var. of OF. avantage advantage n. Cf. It. vantaggio, Sp. ventaja, Pg. vantagem.] 1. a. Advantage, benefit, profit, gain. Now arch.a 1300 Cursor M. 8015 O þam þou sal haue gret ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Fossil word
beckon" is still used in non-idiom-specific use champing, as in "champing at the bit", where "champ" is an obsolete precursor to "chomp", in current use coign , as in "coign of vantage" deserts, as in "just deserts", although singular "desert" in the sense of "state of deserving" occurs in nonidiom-specific wikipedia.org
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gaskin
▪ I. gaskin1 (ˈgæskɪn) Forms: 6 gaskyn, -kyng, -coine, -coigne, gayshekoon, 6–7 gascoyne, 7 gaskoine, gasskin, gasking, 7–8 -coin, 8 -coign, 6–9 gaskin. [Of uncertain origin; perh. due to a false analysis of galligaskin, to which the ‘gallant gaskins’ of the first quot. comes close in point of sound... Oxford English Dictionary
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Mandingo (novel)
After receiving the Major's permission, Hammond and Charles Woodford, Blanche's brother, travel to the Coign plantation where Hammond purchases a "fightin Later, when Charles and Hammond travel to the Coign plantation, the owner, Mr. Wilson, gives Hammond a slave, Ellen, to sleep with. wikipedia.org
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Battle of Affane
The Déise", (pronounced "day-sha") in County Waterford, and in January 1565, crossed the Blackwater with his army, to levy tribute in the old form of "coign wikipedia.org
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St. Patrick's Well, Clonmel
A Romanesque fragment survives: a sandstone coign with chevron carvings, similar to that at Clonmacnoise. wikipedia.org
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