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.  W. Coxe, Tour Monmonth., I. 49. Built of rubble, but coigned with hewn stones.

1889.  Athenæum, 3 Aug., 169/3. The Saxon coigning of ‘long and short work,’ the towered arch with plain chamfered abaci.