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capstone

, copestone
Mountaineering a chockstone occurring at the top of a gully or chimney
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coping stone, capstone, copestone

coping stone
A stone which forms a coping.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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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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