covercle

English

Etymology

From Middle English covercle, from Old French covercle, covescle, covecle. See cover.

Noun

covercle (plural covercles)

1. (obsolete) A small cover; a lid.
   • c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:

     the covercle of a shell-fish

References

• “covercle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.