quoins

After the blocks have been spaced as desired, and the spaces filled with furniture, the form is "locked up," or tightened securely, with wedge-shaped pieces of iron called "quoins," and it is then placed in position on the bed of the press, securely fastened by screw clamps, and "making ready" for printing is begun.

The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Various

Expanding metal brackets called "quoins" locked these into place, and the form was placed in a press.

unknown title 2009

Expanding metal brackets called "quoins" locked these into place, and the form was placed in a press.

unknown title 2009

Expanding metal brackets called "quoins" locked these into place, and the form was placed in a press.

unknown title 2009

Expanding metal brackets called "quoins" locked these into place, and the form was placed in a press.

unknown title 2009

I recognized Federal inspired houses with their rectangular structure and slim, delicate iron railings; those stately old dames mingled freely with Georgian homes with hipped roofs and quoins on the corners.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Digging in 2010

I throw myself up onto the granite windowsill, holding on to the quoins.

The Other Side of Dark Sarah Smith 2010

Instead this stretch of the west Wales coast looks like Cornwall before it got all Cornwall TM, all blooming samphire, gently rusting quoins and pretty little fishing towns so delicious you could gobble them up for tea with cream and jam on.

Let's move to New Quay, west Wales 2010

Alan is the smallest organic grower with one hectare under cultivation in Wiltshire (his website is www. quoins.demon.co.uk).

John Tepper Marlin: Green Edge 2: Organic Wine-Making 2008

The vernacular of austere Merthic style — flattened stone columns, bricked quoins devoid of plaster or wash — was indicative of the speed with which defensible households had needed to be raised.

Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005