Definitionn. expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase
Last update: August 2, 2016
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It consists in the main of an Archean block or " coign,"which still occupies nearly the whole of the western half of the continent, outcrops in north-eastern Queensland, forms the foundation of southern New South Wales and eastern Victoria, and is exposed in western Victoria, in Tasmania, and in the western flank of the Southern Alps of New Zealand. [Please select]
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Blake eyed the havoc from his coign of vantage with a philosophy tinged with triumph. [adjective]
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The window was a coign of vantage, commanding the corner of Carewe and Main streets. [noun]
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They take me for a dun, peer out from a coign of vantage. [Please select]
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No flowery message, compliment, or appeal, not even Mary Stagg's kindly importunity, could bring her from that coign of vantage. [Please select]
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