keap-, kep-, keaping-stane Sc. forms of cope-, coping-stone. 1610Burgh Rec. Aberdeen (Spalding Club) II. 300 The keaping stane to be of outlairis, frie wark, and boulted with irne.1667J. Lamont Diary (1810) 246 By the fall of a keap-stone..his head was bruised into pieces.