Sc. forms of COPE-, COPING-STONE.
1610. Burgh Rec. Aberdeen (Spalding Club), II. 300. The keaping stane to be of outlairis, frie wark, and boulted with irne.
1667. J. Lamont, Diary (1810), 246. By the fall of a keap-stone … his head was bruised into pieces.
