coping


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
coping/ˈkəʊpɪŋ/
noun the top, typically sloping or curved, course of a brick or stone wall.
– origin C16: from cope2, orig. meaning ‘dress in a cope’, hence ‘to cover’.
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