Definitions for coverts

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coverts co·vert

Spelling: [adjective koh-vert, kuhv-ert; noun Coverts is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 223 anagrams from letters in coverts (ceorstv).

Definitions for coverts

noun

1. a covering; cover.
2. a shelter or hiding place.
3. concealment or disguise.
4. Hunting. a thicket giving shelter to wild animals or game.
5. Also called tectrix. Ornithology. one of the small feathers that cover the bases of the large feathers of the wings and tail.
6. covert cloth.

adjective

1. concealed; secret; disguised.
2. covered; sheltered.
3. Law. (of a wife) under the protection of one's husband.

Origin of coverts

1275-1325; Middle English Anglo-French, Old French Latin coopertus, past participle of cooperīre to cover completely; see cover

Examples for coverts

I am ill skilled in beating the coverts of imagination for metaphors of gratitude.

Now that the risk is known, I do not think there will be any more prowling in my coverts.

It is now night; the deer have sought their coverts; and he is not “torch-hunting.”

Nevertheless, the Squire, with a friend or two, had shot the coverts after a fashion.

They beat the forests and searched the coverts in vain; they never met him.

The coverts at Humblethwaite, such as they were, would always be at his service.

The rabbits seemed to have fled from all the coverts about their mountain.

Bears, hidden in their coverts, gazed at him with curious eyes.

There was no trace of any concealed marksman, search the coverts as they would.

You may look to other p. 84refuges but they are not secure, to other coverts but they are not safe.