Hypertext Webster Gateway: "coping"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Cope \Cope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Coped} (k[=o]pt); p. pr. & vb.
n. {Coping}.] [OE. copen, coupen, to buy, bargain, prob. from
D. koopen to buy, orig., to bargain. See {Cheap}.]
1. To exchange or barter. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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. --Shak.
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.
--Philips.
Their generals have not been able to cope with the
troops of Athens. --Addison.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Coping \Cop"ing\, n. [See {Cope}, n.] (Arch.)
The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often
with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called
{capping}. --Gwill.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
coping
n : brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall [syn: {header},
{cope}]
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