covett

She could not reason very clearly, but her idea was to find her cousin and gain her protection, and then, from that more respectable covett, to write to her husband.

A Knight of the Nets Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

"Thus briefly have I sett downe every man's particular imployment and manner of living; albeit, lest the people -- who generallie are bent to covett after gaine, especially having tasted of the sweete of their labors -- should spend too much of their tyme and labor in planting tobacco, known to them to be verie vendible in

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

"They alighted at our covett, * but were opposed at their entrance by the guards, to whom they did not choose to discover themselves, till notice was given to my father; who, upon hearing that some strangers desired admittance to him, sent me to introduce them, if they were proper persons for his presence, or else give orders for such other reception as was suitable to them.

Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Robert Paltock 1732