Word Finder - coves

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A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.

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A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.

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A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.

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A strip of prairie extending into woodland.

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A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.

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The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.

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A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.

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(thieves' cant) A fellow; a man.

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A friend; a mate.

Hire a boat to explore the coves near Dassia.

Enjoy spectacular coastal walks or explore the sandy bays, smugglers ' coves, rocky pools and cliffs.

Orange trees, mimosas and vines coat the slopes above a coastline of rocky coves, craggy headlands and rugged cliffs.

The bays, sandy coves and rocky inlets provide some of the safest spots for bathing, sailing and windsurfing in Cornwall.

The food is also a highlight of the Catalan Castles & Coves walk, which offers a combination of inland and coastal walking.

After hoeing, or perhaps reading and writing, in the forenoon, I usually bathed again in the pond, swimming across one of its coves for a stint, and washed the dust of labor from my person, or smoothed out the last wrinkle which study had made, and for the afternoon was absolutely free.

I have in my mind's eye the western, indented with deep bays, the bolder northern, and the beautifully scalloped southern shore, where successive capes overlap each other and suggest unexplored coves between.

Rope lights are often used in coves, cabinets and other recesses.

When I first paddled a boat on Walden, it was completely surrounded by thick and lofty pine and oak woods, and in some of its coves grape-vines had run over the trees next the water and formed bowers under which a boat could pass.

The pond had in the meanwhile skimmed over in the shadiest and shallowest coves, some days or even weeks before the general freezing.

Such a rule of the two diameters not only guides us toward the sun in the system and the heart in man, but draws lines through the length and breadth of the aggregate of a man's particular daily behaviors and waves of life into his coves and inlets, and where they intersect will be the height or depth of his character.

The northern shoreline is rocky with cliffs and the sandy bays are in coves rather than long stretches.

Lying relatively untouched and refreshingly car-free, it leaves hired bicycles as the best way to explore the pungent vanilla plantations and tranquil coves.

The surface of the peninsula was very hilly and irregular, the shore-line was deeply indented with coves, and there were salt marshes that fringed the neck and the river-channel and were left oozy by the ebbing tides.

Sea-bathing is insecure, and is confined to a few small coves, approached by tunnels hewn through the rock.

It is indented with numerous bays and coves; its greatest length is 138 m., and its greatest breadth 69 m.

Although Maine has no coal and only a very small amount of iron ore within her borders for the encouragement of manufacturing, yet the abundance of fine timber and the numerous coves, bays and navigable streams along or near the coast promoted ship-building from the first, and this was the leading industry of the state until about the middle of the 19th century, when wooden ships began to be supplanted by those of iron and steel.

Steep and rugged ravines intersect the plains, opening into small bays or coves on the shore, fenced with masses of compact and cellular lava; and all over the island are found products of volcanic action.

Javea boasts a coastline made up of striking cliffs, coves, & sandy beaches.

Many deserted coves can be reached only from the sea Sicily has many companies offering diving holidays.

The hotel is set above the pebbly coves of the coast amid pleasant terraces and gardens planted with bougainvillea.

Naoussa has its own shingle and pebble coves, with windsurfing out in the bay.