copestone
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun The upper or top stone; a stone forming part of a coping.
Examples
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For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity.
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The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
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On opening the little door, two hairy monsters flew at my throat, bearing me down and extinguishing the light; while a mingled guffaw from Heathcliff and Hareton, put the copestone on my rage and humiliation.
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These are of various forms, but they are mostly tripods, consisting of a copestone poised upon three other stones, two at the head and one at the foot.
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Its oppression seemed congenial to George; he sat upon the copestone of the stone parapet, his back against a stone pilaster; his attitude not comfortable, but rigid, and his silence not comfortable, either, but heavy.
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Such was Butler's situation, scarce able to drag himself to the place where his daily drudgery must gain his daily bread, and racked with a thousand fearful anticipations concerning the fate of those who were dearest to him in the world, when the trial and condemnation of Effie Deans put the copestone upon his mental misery.
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When he had put this copestone upon Meg’s good cheer, he felt, as he said, ‘mightily elevated, and afraid of no evil which could befall unto him.’
Note
The word 'copestone' comes from 'cope' (in the sense of 'covering') and 'stone'.
