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capestane

capestane is the alternative form of copestone.

Meaning of copestone

Noun

copestone (plural copestones)

  1. capstone
    • The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 10

Forms of capestane

pluralcapestanes

Questions about capestane

What is capestane the alternative form of?
Capestane is the alternative form of copestone.

Words near capestane in the dictionary

  1. capeshit
  2. capesize
  3. capesized
  4. capeskin
  5. capeskins
  6. capestane
  7. capestanes
  8. Capetian
  9. Capetians
  10. Capetillo
  11. Capetillos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: capestane (page history and authors); copestone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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