Coaming vs Coping - What's the difference?
coaming | coping |
(nautical) On a boat, the vertical side of above-deck structures, such as the coach roof, hatch, and cockpit.
A raised frame, designed to deflect or prevent entry of water, around an opening (e.g., a hatch or skylight) in a flat surface, such as a roof or deck.
* 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.92:
(lb) The top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.
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*:Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust.
(lb) 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.
(lb) Clipping the beak or talons of a bird.
As nouns the difference between coaming and coping
is that coaming is (nautical) on a boat, the vertical side of above-deck structures, such as the coach roof, hatch, and cockpit while coping is (lb) the top layer of a brick wall, especially one that slopes in order to throw off water.As a verb coping is
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(en noun)- Creepers threaded the wrecked windows of the coaches, ancient and chalky brown with their riveted seams and welted coamings like something proofed for descents into the sea.