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COVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small inlet
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("cove" is a kind of...):
inlet; recess (an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cove"):
lough (a long narrow (nearly landlocked) cove in Ireland)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("cove" is a kind of...):
cave (a geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea)
Context examples:
“A little cove snatched it out of my hand.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All day he hung round the cove or upon the cliffs with a brass telescope; all evening he sat in a corner of the parlour next the fire and drank rum and water very strong.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
My first mate’s berth on the sealing grounds stood me in good stead, and I cleared the inner cove and laid a long tack along the shore of the outer cove.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“You’re a nice cove, too, John Cummings,” said Harrison, reproachfully.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
On stormy nights, when the wind shook the four corners of the house and the surf roared along the cove and up the cliffs, I would see him in a thousand forms, and with a thousand diabolical expressions.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I set the sail, laid one tack out of the cove, and on the other tack made our own little inner cove.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“Some cove is a gammonin’ us.”
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was one January morning, very early—a pinching, frosty morning—the cove all grey with hoar-frost, the ripple lapping softly on the stones, the sun still low and only touching the hilltops and shining far to seaward.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
We sailed with a beam wind along the shore, searching the coves with our glasses and landing occasionally, without finding a sign of human life.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Ven the day came round, all the volk came to Figg’s Amphitheatre, the same that vos in Tottenham Court, an’ Bob Vittaker ’e vos there, and the Eytalian Gondoleery cove ’e vas there, and all the purlitest, genteelest crowd that ever vos, twenty thousand of ’em, all sittin’ with their ’eads like purtaties on a barrer, banked right up round the stage, and me there to pick up Bob, d’ye see, and Jack Figg ’imself just for fair play to do vot was right by the cove from voreign parts.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
