coping stone
Britishnoun
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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
Benevolence was, indeed, the master virtue, the crown, the coping stone, of all virtues.
From The Empire of the East by H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery
The coping stone had been set on the edifice of the Bremen Cotton Market.
From Bremen Cotton Exchange 1872/1922 by Ch. F. C. Uhte
He desired too, no doubt, to put a coping stone to his fame.
From George Borrow Times Literary Supplement, 10th July 1903 by Thomas Seccombe
They alighted on a nail; a nail thrust lightly into the mortar below the coping stone.
From The Long Night by Stanley John Weyman
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