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coping-stone

coping-stone is the alternative form of coping stone.

Meaning of coping stone

Noun

coping stone (plural coping stones)

  1. (figuratively, literally) A capstone.
  2. One of the stones or slabs that form the outer edge of a railway station platform, next to the track.
    • Other station works include platform extensions to 240 metres, track renewals (which had been completed on three of the four running lines at Kettering by early September) and work on the platform surfaces, such as realignment of coping stones.2019 October, Philip Sherratt, “Midland Main Line upgrade presses on”, in Modern Railways, page 60

Forms of coping-stone

pluralcoping-stones

Questions about coping-stone

What is coping-stone the alternative form of?
Coping-stone is the alternative form of coping stone.

Words near coping-stone in the dictionary

  1. coping stone
  2. coping stones
  3. coping strategies
  4. coping strategy
  5. coping with
  6. coping-stone
  7. coping-stones
  8. Copinger
  9. copinglink
  10. copinglinks
  11. copings

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