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ˈcoping-stone
[f. coping n.1 + stone.]
1. One of the stones forming the coping of a wall.
1778Phil. Trans. LXVIII. 236 Cemented into the copeing stones on the parapet-wall. 1844Hood Haunted H. i. vii, The time-worn coping-stone had tumbled after! 1885E. Arnold Secret of Death 4 The monkey-peoples' mild brown eyes Glittered from bough and coping-stone.
2. fig. = cope-stone.
1860Farrar Orig. Lang. i. 5 Comparative Grammar has deserved the title of ‘the coping stone of philological inquiries’. 1885J. Payn Talk of Town II. 150 That put the coping-stone on the young fellow's embarrassment. |