Crossword clues for dovecote
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dovecot \Dove"cot`\, Dovecote \Dove"cote`\, n. A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.
Like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. 1 A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. 2 In medieval Europe, a round or square structure of stone or wood, free-standing or built into a tower, in which pigeons were kept. n. 1 A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. 2 In medieval Europe, a round or square structure of stone or wood, free-standing or built into a tower, in which pigeons were kept.
WordNet
n. a birdhouse for pigeons [syn: columbary]
Wikipedia
A dovecote or dovecot ( Scots: doocot) is a structure intended to house pigeons or doves. Dovecotes may be free-standing structures in a variety of shapes, or built into the end of a house or barn. They generally contain pigeonholes for the birds to nest. Pigeons and doves were an important food source historically in Western Europe and were kept for their eggs, flesh, and dung. In Scotland the tradition is continued in modern urban areas.
Dovecote may refer to:
- Dovecote, also called doocot in Scottish English, a building for pigeons or doves
- Dovecote Records, a New York based record label
- Dovecote Novices' Hurdle, a British Grade 2 National Hunt hurdle race
- Dovecot (software), an open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/ UNIX-like systems, written primarily with security in mind.
- The Dovecote, an Association Football stadium in Shepshed, Leicestershire, home to Shepshed Dynamo F.C. and formerly home to Shepshed Albion F.C. (known as Shepshed Charterhouse from 1975 to 1992)
Usage examples of "dovecote".
Certainly it overlooked the opposite side of the rough garden from where the dovecote stood.
I Bad to protect my host-a foolish story about his escape on the slefanie, I admit-it was only because he went to the dovecote and I thought I could give him a chance to escape.
Cecilia heard the bells of the dovecote ring, announcing the arrival of a message-bearing pigeon.
Then again, in a narrow courtyard, a simple boy, who looks after a dovecote, is magnificently told.
It was beautiful here, and seemed, for all its restfulness, to have something of that flying quality he so loved about her face, about the sweep of her hair, the quick, soft turn of her eyes--or was that but the darkness of the yew-trees, the whiteness of the dovecote, and the doves themselves, flying?
THE RETICENCE OF LADY ANNE Egbert came into the large, dimly lit drawing-room with the air of a man who is not certain whether he is entering a dovecote or a bomb factory, and is prepared for either eventuality.
He went directly for the top, cutting corners on the zigzag, until he made it to a clearing where a round white gazebo on a single fluted column looked over the treetops like a dovecote on a pole.
A dozen or more sisters, twice as many servants and a number of Warders bustled out, returning with messages and wicker cages of pigeons from the dovecotes in Salidar, a good five hundred miles west and south as the goose flew.
Anyone who could Travel could Skim, so every night sisters Skimmed to Salidar, checking the dovecotes for birds that had returned to where they had been hatched, then Traveled back.
A gate between two dovecotes, where homing pigeons made a noisy cloud, led him across a bridge to the Abbey gardens.
Then came more meadows, some already shorn, some heavy with hay, and more dovecotes and orchards.
Above the town there were groupings of houses and dovecotes, small white cubes set down on harsh gray earth, with long walls of rough gray stones forming terraces to hold whatever soil there was from slipping into the bay.
The Greek brushed lightly past him in the shadows, heading for the dovecotes door, a knife in his hand.
Robin indicated the two tall dovecotes standing in the center of the herb garden.
Ordinand had caused a huge flutter in the dovecotes of owners of good-as-gold horses, and I in conjunction with our chummy insurance syndicate at Lloyds was busy raising defenses against copycat kidnaps.