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covert 1. Law See feme covert Compare discovert 2. a thicket or woodland providing shelter for game 3. short for covert cloth 4. Ornithol any of the small feathers on the wings and tail of a bird that surround the bases of the larger feathers 5. a flock of coots covert [′kō·vərt] (ecology) A refuge or shelter, such as a coppice, for game animals. (textiles) A tightly woven woolen twill fabric made by using a single-color yarn for filling threads and yarns in two different shades in the warp. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Another thing, Trillium Covert and Madrono Ranch were happily situated in a narrow thermal belt, so that in the frosty mornings of winter the temperature was always several degrees higher than in the rest of the valley. ) "Take the covert at once, for my Girchik says the Ilagins are at Korniki with their hounds. But because the alley will be long, and, in great heat of the year or day, you ought not to buy the shade in the garden, by going in the sun through the green, therefore you are, of either side the green, to plant a covert alley upon carpenter's work, about twelve foot in height, by which you may go in shade into the garden. |
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