Posted by John Nichols on February 22, 2005 at 14:07:31 from 165.91.196.86 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Cirques, cwms, corries posted by Laurence Monkhouse on February 22, 2005 at 08:51:57:
I learn something everyday
A recess with precipitous sides in the steep flank of a mountain. (Common in the English Lake district, where small lateral valleys often end in ‘coves’.) b. In some parts of U.S. = gap, pass.
1805 WORDSW. Fidelity iii, It was a cove, a huge recess That keeps till June, December's snow. 1872 JENKINSON Guide Eng. Lakes (1879) 337 The dark, solitary hollows of Nethermost, Ruthwaite, and Cock coves. Ibid. 342 A wild, secluded cove, at the head of the glen. 1872 SCHELE DE VERE Americanisms 511 Notch, a narrow passage, through the mountains..in the Catskill mountains represented by Cove.
Thank you : I thought a cove was only on a coast.
Not John Nichols but a clone.