Used in a Sentence

dovecote

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for dovecote.

Editorial note

It's really not that different now; try building a dovecote and see what your local officials think of it.

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Quick take

A small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments (pigeonholes), in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of dovecote gathered in one view.

noun

A small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments (pigeonholes), in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.

noun

(historical) In medieval Europe, a round or square structure of stone or wood, free-standing or built into a tower, in which pigeons were kept.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for dovecote.

noun

A small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments (pigeonholes), in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.

noun

(historical) In medieval Europe, a round or square structure of stone or wood, free-standing or built into a tower, in which pigeons were kept.

Example sentences

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It's really not that different now; try building a dovecote and see what your local officials think of it.

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If you wish to insulate against this problem, you best bet is build a dovecote.

3

I have started migration to my own mail server with opensmtpd, dovecote, mutt and Rainloop for web mail.

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This comment + the dovecote comment elsewhere makes me ponder whether solar will ever be part of crop rotation / intercropping / cover cropping.

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Dundurn Castle in Hamilton, Ontario has a dovecote built in the 1830s; they were still a status symbol in the colonies in the 19th century.

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We (UK) use tractors to shovel and spread manure - 10s, 100s of tons of the stuff - a dovecote or 10 really isn't going to help, and certainly won't be economic.

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> Rabbi Yirmeya raises a dilemma: If one leg of the chick was within fifty cubits of the dovecote, and one legwas beyond fifty cubits, what is the halakha?

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By the 17th century the private dovecote might have hung around as a status symbol, but there's no reason to believe that in certain places and circumstances and fashions during this whole period common folk were not eating pigeons if they could afford it.

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For the most part, I managed to completely replace the old stuff by newer things (postfix+dovecote, openldap, samba4, CentOS7, bind, bacula, everything hosted in VMs).

Quote examples

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And this law was enforced: Cooke wrote of a case in England in 1577 in which a “tenant who had erected a dovecote on a royal manor was ordered by the Court of Exchequer to demolish it.” This is actually how a lot of manorial/serf institutions worked.

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“Dovecotes for the time were a badge of the elite,” says John Verburg, a dovecote devotee and self-styled “Jane Goodall of pigeons.” During the reign of Elizabeth I, a pigeon tower was a privilege reserved only for feudal lords.

Proper noun examples

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If RSA SecurID whose very business competency is security can be hacked[1], the homeowner running Dovecote/Sendmail/Qmail/etc on Linux or Linux container has no chance at all.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use dovecote in a sentence?

It's really not that different now; try building a dovecote and see what your local officials think of it.

What does dovecote mean?

A small house or box, often raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments (pigeonholes), in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.

What part of speech is dovecote?

dovecote is commonly used as noun.