cove

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'It seemed to me as if a cove was a follerin' 'im, leastways there was a bloke as was a-keepin' close at 'is' eels, -- though I don't know what 'is little game was, I'm sure.

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  1. noun A small sheltered bay in the shoreline of a sea, river, or lake.
  2. noun A recess or small valley in the side of a mountain.
  3. noun A cave or cavern.
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  • The shooting had stopped, now, and all around the cove was the racket of men trying to shout directions to one another The black curtain, however, had them all confused TO Howard Bullock, the bronze man's sense of direction must have seemed amazing. —  110 - The Magic Forest
  • Members say the cove was a part of the history of this and other churches in the area. —  WBIR.com - News
  • Although but three-quarters of a mile from our house, that part of the cape about the cove was the roughest and most inaccessible quarter in our possessions. —  Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors
  • But just above the cove was a high knob-shaped piece of grass and shrubs, dotted with many slabs of sharp stones that stood up like tombstones, and made the knoll look so much like a grave yard that we used to call it "our cemetery." —  Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors
  • I calls my cove--for he is my cove--a snarler; because your first-rates at matthew mattocks are called snarlers, and for no other reason; for the chap, though with a high front, is a good chap, and once drank a glass of ale with me, after buying an animal out of my stable. —  The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
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inlet ·  creek ·  harbour ·  nook ·  lagoon ·  headland ·  estuary ·  ravine ·  bay ·  peninsula ·  islet ·  isle

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cove:   coves
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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Middle English, chamber, cave, from Old English cofa.
  2. Probably from Romany kova, man.

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  1. A word with a wide range of meanings: from Middle English *cove (not recorded), from Anglo-Saxon cofa, a chamber, room (applied also to the ark), Old Northumbrian cofa, a chamber, also a cave, = Icelandic kofi, a hut, shed, cell, = Norwegian kove, a closet, = Swedish dial. kove, a hut, = Middle Low German kove, kave, kofe, Low German kave, kowe, a pen, a sty, stall, = Middle High German kobe, German koben (G. also kofen, from Low German), a cabin, stall, cage (cf. Middle High German kobel, a little cottage, and Old High German chubisi, a hut); Gothic (Moesogothic) form not recorded. Perhaps akin to cub, a stall, cubby, a snug, confined place (see cub, cubby), but not to cave, coop, cup, or alcove, with which last word cove is often erroneously connected. In the architectural sense, cove corresponds to Italian cavetto, literally a little hollow.
  2. from cove, n.
  3. from Old French cover, French couver (= Italian covare), brood, hatch, from Latin cubare, lie down, in comp. incubare, brood, incubate: see cubation, incubate, etc., and cf. couvade and covey.
  4. Also covey, in old slang written cofe (whence cuffin), gipsy cova, a thing, covo, that man, covi, that woman.
 

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