Anglo-Ind. Obs. Also 7–8 covet, 7 (coveld ? misprint for coveed), 8 covit. [ad. Pg. covado, Flemish ell, cubit.] A lineal measure formerly used in India: its length varied, at different places and times, from 36 to 14 inches.
1685. Plot, in Phil. Trans., XV. 1052. A China Covet (i.e. a piece 23 inches and 3/4 long) being worth 80 Tale.
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 206 (Y.). Measures of Surat are only two; the Lesser and the Greater Coveld … the latter of 36 inches English.
1720. in J. T. Wheeler, Madras in Olden Time (1861), II. 338 (Y.). Four large pillars, each to be six covids high, and six covids distance one from the other.
1727. A. Hamilton, New Acc. E. Ind., xxix. 366. He wants so many Covets of Ground to dig in.
1802. Capt. Elmore, in Naval Chron., VIII. 383. Seventy-four covids, of fourteen and a half inches long, and twenty-three covids broad.
