Copings

Word COPINGS
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Definitions and meanings of "Copings"

What do we mean by copings?

The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.

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.

Clipping the beak or talons of a bird.

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The word "copings" in example sentences

The thin slabs of stone, which had to be brought from a great distance, came to be used only for the more exposed portions of buildings, such as copings on walls and borders around roof openings. ❋ Cosmos Mindeleff (N/A)

A glimpse at the strip of pale blue sky above scarcely reveals three ells of breadth; in many places the interval is less: here the copings meet, and there the outriggings of the houses seem to interlace. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Mogadiscio innumerable antipodes, Spaulding copings ❋ Unknown (2004)

He glimpsed walls with ornamental copings, lattices of carven stone that might once have served as the walls of pleasure pavilions. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

The fleshy outer covering of the nut is the favourite food of the great green pigeons of these islands (Carpophaga, perspicillata), and their hoarse copings and heavy flutterings among the branches can be almost continually heard. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Mogadiscio innumerable antipodes,Spaulding copings ❋ Unknown (2004)

A glimpse at the strip of pale blue sky above scarcely reveals three ells of breadth: in many places the interval is less: here the copings meet, and there the outriggings of the houses seem to interlace. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Several stones, probably copings, are cut with three mortice-joints or joist-holes, each measuring 0.15 centimetre, at intervals of 0.14 to 0.15. ❋ Unknown (2003)

And very high up I saw the jagged battlements and finer white marble copings. ❋ Rice, Anne, 1941- (1999)

I came within sight of two huge ruined castles very soon after my departure, copings and ramparts lost in the greedy forest, which made me mindful that these had been the holdings of old Lords who had been fool enough to resist the power of Milan or Florence. ❋ Rice, Anne, 1941- (1999)

Less than a mile away, the charred remains of wagons stood around a small copse of trees nearly hiding the low stone copings of the wells. ❋ Jordan, Robert, 1948- (1996)

From up here we had an aerial view of the unkept lawns, the fruit trees, the wisteria climbing the weathered brick toward our window, and the high walls with their old stone copings stretching away to the cobbled yard under the elms. ❋ Herriot, James (1995)

The deep cellars, with their marble copings just peeping 'neath the heavy mass of weeds that clustered to their very edge, were dark and solemn. ❋ Various (N/A)

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