To quarter one's self on another by force; live by extortion.

noun. In Ireland, formerly, the custom of landlords quartering themselves upon their tenants at pleasure. The term appears to have been applied also to the forcible billeting of others, as of soldiers.

noun. A quoin.

noun. The practice of quartering one's self as landlord on a tenant; a quartering of one's self on anybody.

noun. quoin (keystone)

noun. coign (wedge)

noun. coign; corner; angle

noun. the keystone of an arch

noun. expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase

"And who so clipped the coigne or countrefacted it, or chaunged the stampe or diminisshed the weighte: or in lettres and writinges, shoulde adde any thing, by entrelinyng, or otherwise: or should guelde out any thyng, or bryng a forged euidence, Obligacion or Bille, bothe his handes ware cutte of."

coigny  

headstone  key  keystone  wedge  

Jesuit  abysm  chock  coign  cowd  

quoin