Cove

COVE, sb.1 Sc. Irel. Nhb. Cum. Wm. Yks. Der. Ken. Sus. Dor. Also in form co Sc. (Jam. Suppl.) [kōv, koəv.] 1. A shed; a lean-to or low building with a shelving roof, joined to the wall of another; the shelter which is formed by the projection of the eaves of a house acting as a roof to an outbuilding. Der.1 Ken. Lewis I. Tenet (1736); (K.); Ken.1 Ken.2 Sus.1 Pigeon-cove. Hence (1) Cove-ceiling, sb. a ceiling with sloping sides or partly sloping towards the roof; (2) Coved, (3) Coven, adj. having sloping sides; used of a room the walls of which slant inwards, thus forming sides and roof. (1) Sc. (A.W.) (2) Ken.1 Your bedsteddle couldn't stand there, because the sides are coved. (3) Ken.1 It has a coven ceiling. 2. A cave, cavern, den; a deep pit. Sc. His companion,... pointing in a direction nearly straight across the lake, said ‘Yon's ta cove,’ Scott Waverley (1814) xvi. w.Sc. Still common. On the Carrick and Galloway coasts, a sea-cave is invariably called a co (Jam. Suppl.). Ayr. O'erarching, mouldy, gloom-inspiring coves, Burns Brigs of Ayr (1787) l. 133. N.I.1, N.Cy.1, Nhb.1 Wm. Weathercoat Cove, the most surprising natural curiosity of the kind, Guide to Lakes (1780) 253. w.Yks. Hutton Tour to Caves (1781); w.Yks.1 3. A recess, a hollow in the side of a fell. Cum. Linton Lake Cy. (1864) 315; They whisselt him [the fox] up be t'Iron Crag, an' be t'Silver Cove, Dickinson Lamplugh (1856) 6. Wm.1 4. A hollow. Dor. One day Samson pick up the jaw-bone of an ass, an' the Lord cause water to come in a cove that was in the jaw-bone, an' Samson took it an' drink (C.W.). [1. OE. cofa, a small chamber, cell; ON. kofi, cell, hut, shed; cp. MHG. kobe, ‘stall, schweinestall’ (Lexer). 4. Cp. MHG. kove, ‘hölung,’ ‘in den koven des glūenden

oven’ (LEXER).]

COVE, sb.2 Pem. Colon. [kōv.] 1. An overseer; a master. Aus. In shearers' parlance, the master is ‘boss,’ the superintendent ‘the cove,’ Gent. Mag. (1879) 571; They... came to the conclusion that the ‘cove,’ or proprietor, was an inexperienced swell, Boldrewood Colon. Reformer (1890) II. xx. 2. A sneak. s.Pem. (W.M.M.)

COVE, v. Irel. To rub a flagged floor with a piece of sandstone. N.I.1 Ant. Still in use (W.J.K.). Hence Coving-stone, sb. a piece of flagstone used to ‘cove’ or rub a flagged floor. Ant. (W.J.K.)

COVE, see Calve, v.2

COVE, sb.1 Ken. The upper room of a cottage having a sloping roof. (P.M.)