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Webster 1913 Edition


Copestone

Cope′stoneˊ

,
Noun.
(Arch.)
A stone for coping. See
Coping
.

Definition 2024


copestone

copestone

English

Noun

copestone (plural copestones)

  1. capstone
    • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 32
      For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity.