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Definition of Copings
1. coping [n] - See also: coping
Lexicographical Neighbors of Copings
Literary usage of Copings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Concrete, Plain and Reinforced: Materials, Construction, and by Frederick Winslow Taylor, Sanford Eleazer Thompson, René Feret, William Barnard Fuller, Frank Pape McKibben, Spencer Baird Newberry (1916)
"copings On many structures a coping is necessary and frequently it must be built
separately from the main wall. Instead of stopping at the underside of the ..."
2. The Book of the Garden by Charles McIntosh (1853)
"certain that first-rate fruit is, and has been, produced under copings. ...
With regard to the width of copings," he thinks " that from 7 to 9 inches at the ..."
3. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1860)
"to be of Picton stone, is of the usual coped form, with a richly floriated cross
in high relief along the ridges of the intersecting copings. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the Architecture and Archaeology of the Middle Ages by John BRITTON (1838)
"... and enclosed within a cornice, the gable is usually plain; with the exception
of bold copings on each side, which, in some of the old English mansions, ..."
5. Culture of the Grape by William Chamberlain Strong (1867)
"is exposed in the greatest degree to the effects of dew is obvious. copings and
projecting cornices have, ..."
6. The Orchard: Including the Management of Wall and Standard Fruit Trees, and by Charles McIntosh (1839)
"It is seldom, unless in very dry seasons, or when from the projecting copings of
the wall that the rain and dews are prevented from filling freely on the ..."
7. Specifications for Practical Architecture: Preceded by an Essay on the ...by Alfred Bartholomew by Alfred Bartholomew (1840)
"To take off carefully from stone copings. the present 2068. To re-square and
re-work and throat, where necessary, sand at the outer edge, and re-set the ..."
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