coping stone

noun

It is the crown and apex of all bad language, the coping-stone of all systems of verbal aggression and abuse.

They alighted on a nail; a nail thrust lightly into the mortar below the coping stone.

He paddled along swiftly till he came to a culvert, and dropped behind it, his chin on a level with the coping-stone.

He rubbed his hands with glee, he examined the loop-hole, and discovered that no coping-stone supported the roof.

One final incident seemed the coping-stone of their annoyances.

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