Definition of Dovecat
{ Dove"cot` (?), Dove"cote` (?), }
n. A small house or box, raised to a
considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in
which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.
Like an eagle in a dovecote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A dovecote.
Quotations
*1882: In 1430 King's College, Cambridge, sells the pigeon's dung from its dovecot for 2s. 8d., in 1461 for 3s., in 1537 for 4s. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 412.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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