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copingstone

copingstone 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 copingstone

pluralcopingstones

Questions about copingstone

What is copingstone the alternative form of?
Copingstone is the alternative form of coping stone.

Words near copingstone in the dictionary

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

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