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copings

copings is the plural of coping.

Meaning of coping

Noun

coping (countable and uncountable, plural copings)

  1. The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
    • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy)...
  2. The process of managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize, reduce or tolerate stress or conflict.
  3. The process of clipping the beak or talons of a bird.

Questions about copings

What is copings the plural of?
Copings is the plural of coping.

Words near copings in the dictionary

  1. coping-stone
  2. coping-stones
  3. Copinger
  4. copinglink
  5. copinglinks
  6. copings
  7. copingstone
  8. copingstones
  9. copino
  10. copinos
  11. copins

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