Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A country or region having covers in it; a hunting-region.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A region of country having covers; a hunting country.
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Examples
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She would preside at the Hill dinners with grace and join the meet at the coverside with punctuality; she would dress as became her position, but neither extravagantly nor questionably, and she would be more likely to stint than to squander; she would live as a polite Christian should, in the odor of genteel righteousness, not a fibre laid cross to the conventional grain, not a note out of tune with the orthodox chord.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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An 'I'd listen by the coverside and name 'em one by one.
Songs of Action Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1898
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An 'I'd listen by the coverside and name 'em one by one.
Songs Of Action Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1898
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An 'I'd listen by the coverside and name 'em one by one.
Songs of Action Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Then Robin Hood stepped quickly to the coverside and cut a good staff of ground oak, straight, without new, and six feet in length, and came back trimming away the tender stems from it, while the stranger waited for him, leaning upon his staff, and whistling as he gazed round about.
The Adventures of Robin Hood Howard Pyle 1882
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And among certain special branches in which women have not as yet competed at all, we may mention the Sporting Novel, where provincial manners and the humour of the coverside have been portrayed by Surtees with wonderful exactitude and a kind of coarse yet irresistible comicality that remind one of Fielding.
Studies in Literature and History Alfred Comyn Lyall 1873
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"cut-me-down" multitude to be met at coverside in the "Shires" _par excellence_, and the scarlet mob who rush, and race, and lark from and back to Leamington and Cheltenham.
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