covering strap (kuveringstrap)

In ship building, a plate put under and riveted to two meeting plates in a strake, to connect them. coverlet (kuv'er-let), n. [Accom. form, as if the outer covering. They have loos'd out Dick o' the Cow's three ky, And tane three co'erlets aff his wife's bed. Dick o' the Cow (Child's Ballads, VI. 69). The Heroe's Bed, Where soft and silken Coverlets were spread. Congreve, Hymn to Venus. Every man stretches his legs according to the length of his coverlet. Long fellow , Spanish Student, i. 4. coverlid (kuv'er-lid), n. [Accom. form, as if lid , of coverlet , F. couvre - lit : see cover let .] A corruption of coverlet . The silk star-broider'd coverlid Unto her limbs itself doth mould. Quen that comly he keuered his wyttes. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1755. I scholde covere agayn my sigght. Seven Sages , 1. 357. Here may men fynde a faythfull frende, That thus has couered vs of oure care. II. in trans. 1. To get on; advance. Thei keuered with clene str eng the with him to towne. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3647. 2. To recover; get well. Than were we covered of oure cares colde. Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 762. coverclet, n. [ covercle , couvercle , cooperculum , a cover, cooper ire , cover: see cover1 , v.] A small cover; a lid; an operculum. A litel roundel as a sercle. Para ventre brode as a covercle. Chaucer, House of Fame, 1. 792. The covercle of a shell-fish. Sir T. Browne, Misc. Tracts, p. 11.