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Definition of Covings
1. coving [n] - See also: coving
Lexicographical Neighbors of Covings
Literary usage of Covings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The builder's price book (1804)
"... worked and fet - Purple marble covings, two inches thick Black ditto, 3 inches
thick Old ditto, relet - MARBLE CHIMNEY-PIECES, St,ABS, &C. ..."
2. The Complete Works of Count Rumford by Benjamin Rumford, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1873)
"I may say the same of the thickness necessary to be given to the new sides, or
covings, of the chimney; or if the new back and ..."
3. A New System of Practical Domestic Economy, Founded on Modern Discoveries (1827)
"The covings are connected at bottom and top, behind the back of the grate or ...
In the covings, about straight with the under side of the top fixed or ..."
4. Essays, Political, Economical, and Philosophical by Benjamin Rumford (1802)
"... the covings too much, and leaving the opening of the fire-place in front too
... in altering them the covings may be placed at an angle of 135 degrees ..."
5. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1819)
"On the said covings, on both •idea, I hang, or otherwise fix, one or more folding,
or one or more sliding registers, blowers, doors, or shutters, shutting, ..."
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