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quoin

გამოთქმა: /kɔɪn, kwɔɪn/

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Universal
  • 1an external angle of a wall or building: smaller stations followed the same pattern; stone-built, with strongly accented quoins
  • (also quoin stone) any of the stones or bricks forming a quoin; a cornerstone.
  • 2 Printing a wedge or expanding mechanical device used for locking a letterpress forme into a chase.
  • 3a wedge for raising the level of a gun barrel or for keeping it from rolling.

ზმნა

Universal
  • 1provide (a wall) with quoins or corners: the white plaster walls quoined with red sandstone blocks
  • 2 Printing lock up (a forme) with a quoin.

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