† covid Anglo-Ind. Obs.
(ˈkʌvɪd)
Also 7–8 covet, 7 (coveld ? misprint for coveed), 8 covit.
[ad. Pg. covado, Flemish ell, cubit.]
A lineal measure formerly used in India: its length varied, at different places and times, from 36 to 14 inches.
| 1685 Plot in Phil. Trans. XV. 1052 A China Covet (i.e. a piece 23 inches and 3/4 long) being worth 80 Tale. 1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & Pers. 206 (Y.) Measures of Surat are only two; the Lesser and the Greater Coveld..the latter of 36 inches English. 1720 in J. T. Wheeler Madras in Olden Time (1861) II. 338 (Y.) Four large pillars, each to be six covids high, and six covids distance one from the other. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. xxix. 366 He wants so many Covets of Ground to dig in. 1802 Capt. Elmore in Naval Chron. VIII. 383 Covids, of fourteen and a half inches long. |