cover
verb (used with object)
to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of.
coverer
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a word derived from
cover.
Example Sentences
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Cold facts on Spain's horrors are increasingly hard to get past its censors but in Paris last week arrived United Press's seasoned Madrid correspondent Lester Ziffren, previously an ace coverer of Latin American civil wars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Salutations to thee that art the navel of the universe, that art both cause and effect in the form of the five primal elements, and that art the coverer of all covers.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
The trouble is that the coverer is like Samson who perished in the wreck of what he had destroyed; if he gets rid of a thing effectually he gets rid of himself too.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler
He is covering sergeant of my company, and the smartest coverer we have, too.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
And then, again, I had another man employed as a watchman and roller coverer, at 18s. a-week.
From Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine by Edwin Waugh
