copestone

capstone

Noun

  1. capstone
    • The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago. - 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper...
    • For small erections may be finished by their first architects ; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. - 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 32, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American...

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