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Coping   /kˈoʊpɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Cope  v. t.  (Falconry) To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).


Cope  v. t.  
1.
To bargain for; to buy. (Obs.)
2.
To make return for; to requite; to repay. (Obs.) "three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, We freely cope your courteous pains withal."
3.
To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter. "I love to cope him in these sullen fits." "They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down."


Cope  v. i.  To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow. (Obs.) "Some bending down and coping toward the earth."


Cope  v. i.  (past & past part. coped; pres. part. coping)  
1.
To exchange or barter. (Obs.)
2.
To encounter; to meet; to have to do with. "Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man As e'er my conversation coped withal."
3.
To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; usually followed by with. "Host coped with host, dire was the din of war." "Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens."


noun
Coping  n.  (Arch.) The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; sometimes called capping.





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"Coping" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the quaint dragons' mouths, ranged along the parapet of the Abbey roof; it dripped from every stone coping and abutment; from window-ledge and porch, from gable-end and sheltering ivy. The rain was everywhere, and the incessant pitter-patter of the drops beating against the windows of the Abbey made a dismal sound, scarcely less unpleasant to hear than the perpetual ...
— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... bottom of the well are coppers and coins with square holes in them, thrown thither by devout hands. They gleam enticingly through the shallow water. The people crowd about the well, leaning brown covetous faces above the coping as my copper falls ...
— Profiles from China • Eunice Tietjens
... dinner was ended the pale fire still burned on the thin silk curtains and struck across the garden, gilding the coping of the wall where clustering peaches hung all turned to gold like fabled fruit that ...
— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers
... with-three-wrinkles-in-her-back," a prisoner during her lifetime, and thereafter a Soul-in-pain. I could never describe how much wit and animation she gave to this old nurse's tale. We took out, coffee on the terrace, whose balusters, clasped and forcibly torn away from their stone coping by a vigorous growth of ivy, remained suspended in the grasp of the amorous plant like bewildered Athenian women in the arms of ...
— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard • Anatole France
... of us up the black, oozy court, with myriads of windows made ghastly by the pale flicker of kerosene lamps in tiers above us, until he came to the last door but one upon the left side of the court, over which the letter S was sprawled upon the coping stone. The bullseye had been darkened, and when the Buster plunged through the doorway he was lost to sight in the impenetrable darkness beyond. We heard him though, stumbling against stairs that creaked dismally, and the slide being drawn ...
— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe


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