Queint vs Quint - What's the difference?
queint | quint |
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.v:
(music) an interval of one fifth
(in piquet ) a sequence of five playing cards of the same suit; equivalent to a straight flush in poker
(US) a quin or quintuplet
(firefighting) A vehicle used by firefighters that combines the capabilities of a fire engine and a fire truck, having the ability to provide vertical access as well as pump water to fight a fire.
quinte; In fencing, the fifth fencer in parrying or attacking position.
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As an adjective queint
is obsolete form of lang=en.As a noun quint is
an interval of one fifth.queint
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- with fresh onset he assaild, / And kindling new his courage seeming queint , / Strooke him so hugely [...].