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Meanings of copestone in English

Portuguese
toque final
Catalan
cavalló
Spanish
piedra de toque

A stone that forms the top of wall or building.

        toque final
        Synonyms
        Examples for "stretcher"
        Examples for "stretcher"
        1
        Yes, I saw the stretcher where you left it in the hall.
        Gold of the Gods
        2
        His camera and bloodied flak jacket were carried on a second stretcher.
        The Irish Times
        3
        They carried it into the church and placed it on the stretcher.
        Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel through Brittany
        4
        The floor heaved and the quiet figure on the stretcher got indistinct.
        The Girl from Keller's
        5
        Dortmund's Michy Batshuayi left the field on a stretcher in stoppage time.
        The Guardian
        1
        The finest bit of sculpture is on the capstone of the pyramid.
        The Grafters
        2
        His final volume places the capstone on the structure of his philosophy.
        The Investment of Influence: A Study of Social Sympathy and Serv...
        3
        The electricity set free the capstone which settled into its place.
        A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-d...
        4
        If Atlas works, it will provide the capstone of modern physics.
        Wired
        5
        At the top he grabbed hold and hoisted himself onto the curved capstone.
        Shadow's son
        1
        This sight put a finishing touch to the excitement of the Moranges.
        Fruitfulness
        2
        Their savory flavor often is the finishing touch to your favorite meal.
        Canning & preserving for dummies 2nd edition
        3
        All that was missing was the finishing touch from their leading marksman.
        BBC
        4
        The finishing touch was adding the crystal cluster and gel top coat.
        Ebony
        5
        I will help you perfect the thing, and give it the finishing touch.
        A Word, Only a Word — Volume 03
        1
        Constitutional law is the coping stone of the US federal edifice.
        The Irish Times
        2
        And now the coping stone was set on the temple {Aug.
        A History of the Moravian Church
        3
        Every coping stone and pillar cost some mariner of the Tarifa Straits a pot of money.
        Marse Henry (Volume 2) / An Autobiography
        4
        Then, I went down on to the roof, and crossed over to the gap from which the coping stone had fallen.
        The House on the Borderland
        5
        It was now complete and the coping stone to it was an interview I had with a doctor in Harley Street.
        And Then There Were None
        Usage of copestone in English
        1
        The tipsy man's soliloquy puts the copestone on his degradation.
        Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
        2
        The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
        Moby Dick
        3
        Every iron beam; every copestone, every coigne of vantage, every oriel window in this honorable edifice is for you!
        David Lockwin—The People's Idol
        4
        For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity.
        Moby Dick
        5
        The copestone of the sacred structure reared by the legislation of the middle books of the Pentateuch is the high priest.
        Prolegomena to the History of Israel
        Frequent collocations
        Translations for copestone
        Portuguese
        toque final
        Catalan
        cavalló
        Copestone through the time