coping meaning

• Noun: coping  kowping
  1. Brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
     - header, cope
  Verb: cope  kowp
  1. Come to terms with
     - get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage

  Derived forms: copings

  Type of: act, brick, move

  Part of: wall

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  Coping

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  [Architecture]
  

  A protective cap, top, or cover of wall, parapet, pilaster, or chimney; often of stone, terra-cotta, concrete, metal, or wood. May be flat, but commonly sloping, double-beveled, or curved to shed water so as to protect masonry below from penetration of water from above. Most effective if extended beyond wall face and cut with a drip. Also see featheredged coping.

  

  coping of terra-cotta

• featheredged coping, splayed coping, wedge coping:    [Architecture]Copi ...
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Examples

1. she can cope with different kinds of farmwork.
2. mr. wyburd will cope with the visitors.
3. how would we cope once the money had gone?
4. i found her conversation hard to cope with.
5. let's cope with the matter fair and square.