noun
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Also called: coping stone. a stone used to form a coping
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Also called: capstone. the stone at the top of a building, wall, etc
Etymology
Origin of copestone
Example Sentences
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His “System of Christian Doctrine” formed the copestone of an almost fifty years' academical career.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by J. H. Kurtz
He might have been a carven copestone of the very granite fang he sat upon, for all the appearance of life he gave, except that occasionally—say at fifteen-minute intervals—he winked a yellow-lidded wink.
From The Way of the Wild by Harry Rountree
He raised himself from the copestone of the parapet, and solemnly tramped his steady way up to the "onstead" of Craig Ronald, which took shape before him as he advanced like a low, grey-bastioned castle.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
These are of various forms, but they are mostly tripods, consisting of a copestone poised upon three other stones, two at the head and one at the foot.
From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Hugh Macmillan
The horrid shrieks of the Chouette served to place the copestone on the fury of the Schoolmaster.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Eugène Sue
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