Category:Coign

Coign, n.

Defn: A var. spelling of Coin, Quoin, a corner, wedge; -- chiefly used in the phrase coign of vantage, a position advantageous for action or observation.

From some shielded nook or coign of vantage. The Century.

The lithosphere would be depressed on four faces;. . . the four projecting coigns would stand up as continents. Nature.