Covin

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. fraud, deception
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.
  • n. Deceit; fraud; artifice.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A secret agreement; secret fraud; collusion.
  • n. Specifically In law, a collusive agreement between two or more to prejudice a third person; deceitful contrivance.
  • n. Same as covent.
  • Word Usage
    "The shearmen who cut the nap of woolen cloth were “wont to go to all the vadletts within the City of the same trade, and then, by covin and conspiracy between them made, they would order that no one among them should work, or serve his own master, until the said master and his servant, or vadlett, had come to an agreement.”"
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    deceit    fraud    artifice    deception   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    nonwoven