coping stone
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The man had been outside the 14-story residence at 311 East 50th Street when he was struck by a coping stone that had been removed to anchor the suspended scaffold, a Fire Department official said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2019
They alighted on a nail; a nail thrust lightly into the mortar below the coping stone.
From The Long Night by Stanley John Weyman
Kaa had only just worked his way over the west wall, landing with a wrench that dislodged a coping stone into the ditch.
From The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
This last fact, indeed, put the coping stone to the feud between them, for Mrs Lorton expressed her opinion to a friend, and Burnham, of course, got to know of it.
From Bye-Ways by Robert Smythe Hichens
But Palmer, the captain of Sharpe's lot—the beaten side—put the coping stone to a pleasant afternoon by asking Gus to referee for them against Merishall's.
From Acton's Feud A Public School Story by Frederick Swainson
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