Ordet hittades på dessa språk:
| Översättning |
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| Substantiv |
| 1. | koy |
Definitioner
Substantiv
- (now uncommon) A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.
- (British) A fellow; a man.
- (architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.
- (Australia) A friend; a mate.
- 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.
Verb
- (architecture) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
- To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.
Exempel
- vessels which were in readiness for him within secret coves and nooks
- The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs.
- Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel.
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