Cove

[kohv] /koʊv/

noun
1.
a small indentation or recess in the shoreline of a sea, lake, or river.
2.
a sheltered nook.
3.
a hollow or recess in a mountain; cave; cavern.
4.
a narrow pass between woods or hills.
5.
a sheltered area between woods or hills.
6.
Architecture.

verb (used with or without object), coved, coving.
7.
to make or become a cove.
[kohv] /koʊv/
noun
1.
British Slang. a person; fellow.
2.
Australian Slang. a manager, especially of a sheep station.
/kəʊv/
noun
1.
a small bay or inlet, usually between rocky headlands
2.
a narrow cavern formed in the sides of cliffs, mountains, etc, usually by erosion
3.
a sheltered place
4.
(architect) Also called coving. a concave curved surface between the wall and ceiling of a room
verb
5.
(transitive) to form an architectural cove in
/kəʊv/
noun
1.
(old-fashioned, slang, Brit & Austral) a fellow; chap
2.
(Austral, history) an overseer of convict labourers
n.

early 14c., “den, cave,” from Old English cofa “small chamber, cell,” from Proto-Germanic *kubon (cf. Old High German kubisi “tent, hut,” German Koben “pigsty,” Old Norse kofi “hut, shed”). Extension of meaning to “small bay” is 1580s, apparently via Scottish dialectal meaning “small hollow place in coastal rocks” (a survival of an Old English secondary sense).

“fellow, chap,” slang from at least 1560s, said to be from Romany (Gypsy) cova “that man.”