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▪ I. coining, vbl. n.1|ˈkɔɪnɪŋ|
[f. coin v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb coin.
1. lit.
a. The making of coin; minting.
1548Wriothesley Chron. (1877) II. 7 A French man being prisoner..for quoyning of testornes. 1605Shakes. Lear iv. vi. 83 They cannot touch me for coyning [Ff. crying]. I am the King himselfe. 1691Locke Money Wks. 1727 II. 68 The Coining of Silver, or making Money of it, is the ascertaining of its Quantity by a publick Mark, the better to fit it for Commerce. 1876Mathews Coinage i. 7 The hammer and die continued to be the only instruments used in coining until the middle of the 16th century.
b. Shaping of metal in a coining press (see quot. 1968).
1940J. D. Jevons Metall. Deep Drawing xv. 561 It is now usual to give the pressed or deep-drawn article one or more final squeezing operations between dies, a process closely akin to that of ‘coining’. 1968Gloss. Terms Mechanized & Hand Sheet Metal Work (B.S.I.) 6 Coining. 1. A final squeezing operation, with a punch and die, to give accuracy of dimensions. 2. An operation whereby a pattern is impressed by a punch.
2. fig. Deliberate invention, fabrication.
a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 123 He was..forced to fall to coining, and was Several Months before he could light on one [Name] that pleased him. 1712Addison Spect. No. 285 There are in Milton several Words of his own Coining. 1858Doran Crt. Fools 96 The coining of bitter jests.
3. attrib. and Comb., as coining-house, coining-irons, coining-stamps. coining press, (a) a press for making coin (see quot. 1688); (b) a punch press in which metal is pressed to a required size, or embossed, etc.
1529W. Frankeleyn in Fiddes Wolsey (1726) ii. 168 We must have many moo coyning yrons. 1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2352/4 One Valentine Cogswell had set up a Coining-Press. Ibid. No. 2366/4 Three pair of Coyning Stamps. 1824R. Stuart Hist. Steam Engine 187 Constructing coining apparatus for the Peruvian mint. a1877Knight Dict. Mech. I. 592/1 Coining-press, a power lever-screw press by which the planchet of metal is impressed with the design or legend. 1880Mackintosh Hist. Civiliz. Scotl. II. xix. 337 They came to the Coining-house and gave security. 1925Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXII. 448 The adaptation of the coining-press to the manufacture of such parts as forged arms and levers.
▪ II. † coining, vbl. n.2 Arch.
In 5 coyning.
Another form of quoining, corner-work.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xi, The ryche coyning, the lusty tablementes.
▪ III. coining, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That coins (lit. and fig.; see the verb).
1629Massinger Picture ii. ii, Some..whose coining heads Are the mints of all new fashions. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 383 The coining cities have struck medals. |