DCHP-3

coveman

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. — Hist.

a man who worked in a timber cove.

See: cove(def. 1)

Quotations

1963
. . . all loose wood and the framework of the raft, became the prey of the covemen whose work it was to break up the raft and prepare the timber for shipment to Britain.