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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The copestone is finished—our labor is o'er, The sound of the gavel shall hail us no more.
From The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by Morgan, William
The supports are rough boulders, the largest masses of stone that could be found or moved; and the copestone is an enormous flat square block, often with cup-shaped hollows carved upon its surface.
From Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood by Macmillan, Hugh
It was reserved to his successor to raise it, as the martyr had predicted it would be raised, even to the copestone.
From The Scottish Reformation Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics by Fleming, David Hay
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 Macmillan, Hugh
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 Rountree, Harry
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