forcover
English
Etymology
From Middle English forcoveren (“to cover, cover up”), equivalent to for- + cover.
Verb
forcover (third-person singular simple present forcovers, present participle forcovering, simple past and past participle forcovered)
- (archaic) To cover completely, cover over; to cover up, conceal.
- 1879, Thomas Pownall Boultbee, A history of the Church of England: pre-Reformation period:
- And she did about his hands little skins of kids, and she forcovered the nakedness of the neck, and gave the dish and took the loaves that she had baked.
-