Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which covers or lays a cover.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, covers.
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- noun
Agent noun ofcover ; one who covers.
Etymologies
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Examples
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According to this conception it would seem that Varuna were the 'coverer' rather than the 'encompasser.'
The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow Edward Washburn Hopkins 1894
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When I recommended to my friend that she take out a license to become a self-employed button-coverer, or a coat-hanger maker, she jumped up from her chair waving her hands, No! No! "If my name is on the next list," she said, "I'm going to create a scene that will be heard in the office of the minister and every hallway."
Yoani Sanchez: Cuban State Lays Off One in Five Workers Yoani Sanchez 2010
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When I recommended to my friend that she take out a license to become a self-employed button-coverer, or a coat-hanger maker, she jumped up from her chair waving her hands, No! No! "If my name is on the next list," she said, "I'm going to create a scene that will be heard in the office of the minister and every hallway."
Yoani Sanchez: Cuban State Lays Off One in Five Workers Yoani Sanchez 2010
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He was also a quality pass coverer and had more impact as a blitzer (21½ career sacks) than most middle 'backers.
In 2000s, Ravens' Ray Lewis set the gold standard for defenses 2010
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Until that is, his all-over-the-place ass-coverer lawyer Luskin decided that statement should be ... well, qualified just a bit.
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Until that is, his all-over-the-place ass-coverer lawyer Luskin decided that statement should be ... well, qualified just a bit.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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White (codis-coverer of Lucy), Suwa and Berhane Asfaw of the Paleoanthropology Laboratory in Addis Ababa named it Australopithecus ramidus.
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Us Weekly is doing what every other coverer of any low - to highbrow source of real news or celebrity gossip or pure trash ought to be doing: opting out.
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You're the epitome of a celebrity coverer, if that's such a word.
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I think you are preaching to the choir here to posit that Roborts is the coverer up in chief.
Firedoglake » Pat Roberts: Did He or Didn’t He, Will He or Won’t He? 2006
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