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Noun Concept
Categories: Relief printing, Typography stubs, Letterpress printing
EN
quoin  coign  coigne
EN
Expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase WordNet 3.0
English:
printing
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Expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
A quoin is a device used to lock printing type in a chase in letterpress printing. Wikipedia
Wooden or metal wedges or cam operated devices for locking printing type into a chase Wikipedia Disambiguation
A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place. Wiktionary
IS A
wedge
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
quoin, coign, coigne
Wikipedia
EN
quoin (printing)
Wikidata
EN
Quoin
Wiktionary
EN
quoin
Wikipedia Redirections
EN
Coign (printing)

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