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quoin up

quoin up verb: to set quoins in place prior to fastening them (locking up).

Verb

quoin up (third-person singular simple present quoins up, present participle quoining up, simple past and past participle quoined up)

  1. (obsolete) To set quoins in place prior to fastening them (locking up).

Forms of quoin up

third-person singular presentquoins up
present participlequoining up
past participlequoined up
pastquoined up

Questions about quoin up

What does quoin up mean?
Quoin up means to set quoins in place prior to fastening them (locking up).
What part of speech is quoin up?
Quoin up is a verb.
What is the past tense of quoin up?
The past tense of quoin up is quoined up.

Words near quoin up in the dictionary

  1. quoilers
  2. quoils
  3. quoin
  4. quoin post
  5. quoin posts
  6. quoin up
  7. quoined
  8. quoined up
  9. quoining
  10. quoining up
  11. quoinings

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