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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

... 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 ripens ...

— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers

... that Langholm made; but he was thinking to himself, was there ever so inglorious a triumph? He knew not what he had said; there was only one thing that he did know. But was the law itself capable of coping with such ...

— The Shadow of the Rope • E. W. Hornung

... fields like deep water. Here he strolled along the old ramparts of ancient fortifications that once had been formidable, but now were only vision-like with their charming mingling of broken grey walls and wayward vine and ivy. From the broad coping on which he sat for a moment, level with the rounded tops of clipped plane trees, he saw the esplanade far below lying in shadow. Here and there a yellow sunbeam crept in and lay upon the fallen yellow leaves, and from ...

— Three John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood

... if Vere were to be saved in time, I must get up from my cramped seat, lower myself over the edge of the roof, hang at full length from the coping and drop on to the flags beneath. The men had done it, but they were men, and it was a big drop even for them, and they haven't got nerves like girls, or skirts, or slippers with heels. I was frightened out of my wits, but I knew that every moment I thought ...

— The Heart of Una Sackville • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

... that no water can pass outside of them, and a rubble-work of stone may with advantage be carried up a foot above them. Stone work, which may be rough and uncemented, but should always be solid, may then be built up at the sides, and covered with a secure coping of stone. A floor and sloping sides of stone work, jointed with the previously described work, and well cemented, or laid in strong clay or mortar, may, with benefit, be carried a few feet beyond the outlet. This will effectually prevent the undermining ...

— Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health • George E. Waring

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