Vessels which were in readiness for him within secret coves and nooks.
Holland.

The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs.
H. Swinburne.

Coved ceiling, a ceiling, the part of which next the wail is constructed in a cove. -- Coved vault, a vault composed of four coves meeting in a central point, and therefore the reverse of a groined vault.

Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel.
Holland.

There's a gentry cove here.
Wit's Recreations (1654).

Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink
Be not filched from us.
Mrs. Browning.