MEANING
The protective upper covering of a wall, usually shaped to help shed rain.
Use it for
wall tops; water damage; boundary detailDescribe the finish along a wall rather than calling it bare stone.
Words that belong together
- stone coping
- cracked coping
- coping stones
On the page
Rain dripped from the coping onto the lane.
The mason lifted a loose coping stone from the garden wall.
Fresh coping made the repaired wall look strangely new against the old gate.
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Word forms
- Base
- coping
Usage notes
Primary category: architecture. A construction noun, not the act of dealing with difficulty; commonly collective or uncountable. Usually mass noun: coping. Individual units: coping stones.
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