coping
/ˈkəʊpɪŋ
/noun
The top, typically curved or sloping, course of a brick or stone wall.The diagrams demonstrate the great variety and uses for stone wall copings....
- The programme involves essential repairs to the roof, gutters, stone copings, internal plasterwork, rewiring, redecoration and upgrading of the central heating system.
- The original wall was built of beige coloured brick with blue header copings.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from the verb cope2, originally meaning 'dress in a cope', hence 'to cover'.
Rhymes
- rider
- ridered
- rideress
- riderless
- rider millstone
- ride roughshod over
- rider's bone
- ridership
- rider stone
- Ride, Sally
- ride-share
- ride-sharing
- ride shotgun
- ride skimmington
- ride someone down
- ride something out
- ride the clutch
- ride the pine (or bench)
- ride the rods (or rails)
- ride to hounds
- ride up
- rideway
- ridge
- ridgeback
- ridge-band