copestone
Origin of copestone
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How to use copestone in a sentence
The copestone which Absalom put on his plot when all was ripe for execution was of a piece with the whole undertaking.
The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel | W. G. BlaikieThe universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
Moby Dick; or The Whale | Herman MelvilleFor small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity.
Moby Dick; or The Whale | Herman MelvilleIt was reserved to his successor to raise it, as the martyr had predicted it would be raised, even to the copestone.
The Scottish Reformation | Alexander F. MitchellThe justices and councilors of a supreme court, the copestone of the judiciary, were nominated by the same body.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte | William Milligan Sloane
British Dictionary definitions for copestone
/ (ˈkəʊpˌstəʊn) /
Also called: coping stone a stone used to form a coping
Also called: capstone the stone at the top of a building, wall, etc
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