American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - n. The top layer or course of a masonry wall, usually
having a slanting upper surface to shed water; a cope. Century
Dictionary and Cyclopedia - n. The top or cover of a wall,
usually made Sloping to Shed the water. A coping over is a
projecting work beveling on its under side. Flat coping is
called parallel coping, and is used upon inclined surfaces, as
on the gables and parapets of houses, and also on the tops of
garden and other walls. Feather-edgea coping has one edge
thinner than the other. Saddle-back coping is thicker in the
middle than at the edges. - 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. - n. architecture The top layer of a brick wall,
especially one that slopes in order to throw off water - n.
psychology the process of managing taxing circumstances,
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