coping-stonen.
1. One of the stones forming the coping of a wall.
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the world > space > relative position > high position > [noun] > highest point or top > crown or finishing touch
coping-stone1610
society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > disposition of stones or bricks > [noun] > specific stone or brick
hirne-stonec1000
parpen1252
coin1350
coin-stone1350
angler1365
parpal1369
corner-stonea1382
cunye1387
tuss1412
quoin1532
table stone1554
quoining1562
copestone1567
ground-stone1567
lock bandc1582
quinyie1588
perpender1611
whelmer1618
parpen stone1633
capstone1665
headera1684
through1683
quoin-stone1688
stretcher1693
closer1700
bed-stone1723
coping-brick1725
girder1726
footstone1728
heading brick1731
bossage1736
lewis-hole1740
shoulder1744
headstone1745
pawl1753
tail-bond1776
coping-stone1778
slocking-stone1778
throughband1794
through-stone1797
stretching-bond1805
core1823
keystone1823
tail-binder1828
stretching-stone1833
header brick1841
coign1843
pawl-stone1844
bay-stone1845
bonder1845
pillar-stone1854
bond-piece1862
stretcher-brick1867
toothing-stone1875
bond-stone1879
pierpoint1891
jumper1904
tush1905
padstone1944
1610 Burgh Rec. Aberdeen (Spalding Club) II. 300 The keaping stane to be of outlairis, frie wark, and boulted with irne.
1778 Philos. Trans. 1777 (Royal Soc.) 68 236 Cemented into the copeing stones on the parapet-wall.
1844 T. Hood Haunted House i, in Hood's Mag. Jan. 2 The time-worn coping-stone had tumbled after.
1885 E. Arnold Secret of Death 4 The monkey-peoples' mild brown eyes Glittered from bough and coping-stone.
2. figurative. = copestone n.
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the world > action or operation > completing > [noun] > that which > finishing touch or crowning act
copestone1567
last hand1567
colophon1628
capstone1685
grace stroke1686
finishing stroke1695
coup de grâce1699
touch-up1733
finish1779
crowner1815
coping-stone1860
grace note1922
topper1940
1860 F. W. Farrar Ess. Origin Lang. i. 5 Comparative Grammar has deserved the title of ‘the coping stone of philological inquiries’.
1885 J. Payn Talk of Town II. 150 That put the coping-stone on the young fellow's embarrassment.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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