Coping

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The top layer or course of a masonry wall, usually having a slanting upper surface to shed water; a cope.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water
  • n. the process of managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize, reduce or tolerate stress or conflict.
  • v. Present participle of cope.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The top or cover of a wall, usually made Sloping to Shed the water.
  • n. In ship-building, the turning of the ends of iron lodging-knees so as to hook into the beams, and thus ease the strain upon the necks of the bolts when the vessel rolls.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    brick   
    Variant
    capping   
    Verb Stem
    cope   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    groping    hoping    moping    roping    scoping    sloping   
    Same Context
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