coping

nounverbattested in dialogue

The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.

noun

1
The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]
He stood a moment at the coping, looking over a land of hard little bungalows with abnormally large porches, and new apartment-houses, small, but brave with variegated brick walls and terra-cotta trimmings.
2
The process of managing taxing circumstances, expending effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize, reduce or tolerate stress or conflict.
3
The process of clipping the beak or talons of a bird.

Etymology

From cope + -ing. The sense referring to a brick wall is cope (sense 2), used in the sense "dress in a cope," "to cover."

verb

1
Also a form of copepresent participle and gerund of cope

Forms

plural: copings

cope · To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult.Cope · A surname.Copenhagen · The capital city of Denmark.

coping · The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.

copper · A reddish-brown metallic chemical element (symbol Cu) with…Copper · A surname.cops · The police, considered as a group entity.

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