Definition of Coving

1. n. A cove or series of coves, as the concaved surface under the overhang of a projecting upper story.

Definition of Coving

1. Noun. A concave surface, often of gypsum or expanded polystyrene, forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coving

1. a concave molding [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coving

coveters
coveting
covetingly
covetise
covetises
covetiveness
covetous
covetously
covetousness
covetousnesses
covets
covey
coveys
coville
covin
coving (current term)
covings
covinous
covins
covolatility
covyne
covynes
cow's head
cow's lungwort
cow-nosed ray
cow-orker
cow-orkers
cow-tongue fern
cow-tree

Literary usage of Coving

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by Kentucky, United States Congress Senate, House of Representatives, General Assembly (1871)
"An act to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the coving- ton Street Railway Company;" An net to amend an act, entitled "An act to incorporate the ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"More sisters soon arrived from the mother-house, and in 1860 they were able to establish a branch-house in coving- ton, Ky. ..."

3. The Michigan Engineer by Michigan Engineering Society (1895)
"AURORA, LARGEST /MANUFACTURERS OF EARTH /coving Iff THE WORLD. ILLINOIS Road A\acl)ine ... out the Union. We have made some additional improvements on it ..."

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