Coping

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): (n.) The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; - sometimes called capping.

(2): (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cope

Holman Bible Dictionary [2]

 1 Kings 7:9 Exodus 25:25 Exodus 37:12 Isaiah 48:13

King James Dictionary [3]

Coping n. See cope, n. The top or cover of a wall, made sloping to carry off the water.  1 Kings 7:9 . A coping over, is a projecting work beveling on its under side.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]

(also called capping), a course of stones, either flat or sloping, to throw off the water, especially used in the end walls of Gothic edifices.

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