coping stone meaning

• Noun: coping stone  kowping stown
  1. A stone that forms the top of wall or building
     - capstone, copestone, stretcher

  Derived forms: coping stones

  Type of: stone

  Part of: wall

  Encyclopedia: Coping stone

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Examples

1. Construction is of rubble masonry with flat coping stones on the parapets.
2. The roof has no Coping stone or Cross finials.
3. There are two buttresses with ornamented coping stones.
4. The coping stone by actor Henry Irving.
5. The King laid the last coping stone with a silver trowel and declared the bridge open.