keap-, kep-, keaping-stane
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. |