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covey
[ kuhv-ee ]
noun
- a brood or small flock of partridges or similar birds.
- a group, set, or company.
covey
/ ˈkʌvɪ /
noun
- a small flock of grouse or partridge
- a small group, as of people
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Origin of covey1
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Example Sentences
Cast: Jeff Garlin, Wendi McLendon-Covey, George Segal, Hayley Orrantia, Sean Giambrone, Troy Gentile.
The dogs have struck the running trail, and their action is totally different from what it was with the first covey.
Now Sancho comes up and catches the cold trail, for a covey has certainly been in that place to-day.
From the grass nine Indians arose, stooped, and scuttled off like a covey of running quail.
We were just in time to see Pritchard disappear into a vineyard, and a moment afterwards he raised a covey of partridges.
If spared by boys and house cats until the hunting season began he would captain a covey.
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