Coventry

“to send a man to COVENTRY ,” not to speak to or notice him. Coventry was one of those towns in which the privilege of practising most trades was anciently confined to certain privileged persons, as the freemen, . Hence a stranger stood little chance of custom, or countenance, and “to send a man to COVENTRY ” came to be equivalent to putting him out of the pale of society. Cover-down , a to ing coin with a false cover, enabling either head or tail to be shown, according as the cover is left on or taken off. The cover is more generally called a CAP . This style of cheating is now obsolete. A man who cannot manage to cheat at to ing without machinery is a sorry rogue.