cove
IPA: kˈoʊv
noun
- (now uncommon) A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
- (architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
- A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.
- (US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.
- A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.
- (nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.
- (nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.
- (Appalachia) A valley between two ridges.
- (Britain, dated, informal, thieves' cant, Lewis) A fellow; a man.
- (Australia and Polari) A friend; a mate.
- A number of places in the United States:
- An unincorporated community in Apache County, Arizona.
- A town in Polk County, Arkansas.
- An unincorporated community in McDonald County, Missouri.
- A minor city in Union County, Oregon.
- A minor city in Chambers County, Texas.
- A census-designated place in Cache County, Utah.
- A small village in Tiverton parish, Mid Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS9519).
- A suburb of Farnborough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU8556).
- Three villages in Scotland:
- A coastal village on the Rosneath peninsula, Argyll and Bute council area (OS grid ref NS2282).
- A hamlet on Loch Ewe, Highland council area (OS grid ref NG8090).
- A coastal village near Cockburnspath, Scottish Borders council area (OS grid ref NT7871).
- A habitational surname from Old English.
- (Australia, soccer) The Sydney FC fan base.
- Short for Cove Bay, Aberdeen, Scotland. [A suburb in Aberdeen council area, Scotland (OS grid ref SJ9501).]
verb
- (architecture) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
- (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) Of a bird or other animal: to brood, cover, incubate, or sit over (eggs).
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Examples of "cove" in Sentences
- The tranquil cove is sheltered from the open sea behind a tier of craggy sea stacks.
- And some time, when we get together in San Francisco, I'll lead you up against Bierce -- the one this cove is named after.
- The city-stateof Argos, ringing a mountainous cove, is a breathtaking bit of CGI imagery, while the gorgon and its lair are chillinglyatmospheric.
- The cove is often listed among the best beaches in the world, and back then stars such as Liz Taylor and Richard Burton would fly in by helicopter before partying on the beach.
- I'm fishing smack in the middle of New York City, on Central Park's Loeb Lake, and this cove is a tiny pocket in this 843-acre living work of art conceived 150 years ago by the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
- I calls my cove -- for he is my cove -- a snarler; because your first-rates at matthew mattocks are called snarlers, and for no other reason; for the chap, though with a high front, is a good chap, and once drank a glass of ale with me, after buying an animal out of my stable.
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