coping

plural copings

1. countableuncountablearchitectureThe top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.

   He stood a moment at the coping, looking over a land of hard little bungalows with abnormally large porches, and new apartment-houses, small, but brave with variegated brick walls and terra-cotta trimmings.

   1922, Sinclair Lewis, “28”, in Babbitt

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   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), page 377, column 2

2. countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe 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. countableuncountablefalconryThe process of clipping the beak or talons of a bird.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of cope