coigner4 (c.1185)
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coigner4 (c.1185)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,1531b cuneus; Gdf: 2,172c coignier; GdfC: 9,120c coignier; TL: 2,824 coignier; DEAF:  coing (coignier); DMF:  cogner; TLF:  cogner; OED:  coin v.1; MED:  coinen v.; DMLBS: 533b cuneare ]
coingnier;  coinner;  cuigner,  cuner,  cunier;  koigner,  goigner  

v.a.

1curr.finan.to coin, stamp: 
( 1314-15 )  qe le dit Gardeyn (=of the Mint) ne soit ousté par nul aliene, et qe la coyne demore devers luy a coigner tot foitz quant mester serra  i 298
( s.xiv-xv )  il n’artera ne compellera nulle persone […] lesser d’avoir son or ou argent cunez en la dite Toure de Londres  ii 105
( 1415; MS: s.xv1/4 )  Coynés pour couper bastouns de keyne Et coignes (=wedges) pur lez busshes (=logs) fendre et l’argent coignee prendre  79.25-6
( 1423 )  tout ceo qe viendra a l’Eschange en plate ou en masse ferra cuigner a le Mynt  iv 200
♦to affix an official stamp on blocks of tin of standard value: 
( 1314-15 )  une grant summe d’esteym faussement coignez  i 296
( 1340-80 )  (tin-miners complain) de iceux qe amenent esteim outre meer ou allours par musceites, nient coynee del coyn le roi par quei le rei pert le proffit de son coyn  SC 8/342/16144
2to put, set, place: 
( c.1290; MS: s.xivin )  Ly syres feyt son neyf (M.E. cheorl) koigner (M.E. stocken) En ses ceps (M.E. stockes) pur chastier  (C) 9vb

v.n.

1to strike (at): 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  De l’escu se clot […] Ne vot plus suffrir ke il n’i goigne  3640
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