coping : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: coping	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for coping
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
coping n brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall [syn: header, coping, cope]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Cope \Cope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Coped} (k[omac]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.