uncope

uncope

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ cope.

Verb

uncope (third-person singular simple present uncopes, present participle uncoping, simple past and past participle uncoped)

  1. (transitive) To remove the coping from (a wall).
    • 1851, Alphonse de Lamartine, The Stonecutter of St. Point: A Village Tale, page 13:
      The wind had beaten them [tree branches] about on the crest of this wall, until it had finished by uncoping the stones, loosening the mortar, and making breaches in the masonry […]
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