coping stone

1. 1.

   a stone that forms the top of wall or building

   Synonymscapstonecopestonestretcher

   Broaderstone

   Part ofwall

Questions about coping stone

What does coping stone mean?

coping stone means "a stone that forms the top of wall or building".

What is another word for coping stone?

Close synonyms include capstone, copestone, stretcher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coping stone a common word?

coping stone is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.