Also 6 quenynge. [f. QUOIN sb. + -ING1. Cf. COINING vbl. sb.2] The stone or brick-work forming the quoin of a wall, or the manner in which this is placed.
1562–3. in Willis & Clark, Cambridge (1886), II. 567. Stone … new wrought … to ashler and quenynge.
1848. Rickman, Styles Archit. Eng., App. p. iv. There is a peculiar sort of quoining,… consisting of a long stone set at the corner and a short one lying on it, and bonding one way or both into the wall.
1876. Archæol. Cant., X. lii. The quoining of the nave and chancel.
