Cover and covert.

"Covert" is a derivative of the Norman French "couvert" which referred specifically to woodlands that were hunted for deer and boar. Within UK at any rate somewhere called a covert was either ancient hunting woodland or a recent plantation constructed with sport in mind.

"Cover" is quite different and refers to the brash and understory either in woods or out of them. Thus an open understory in Trickley Covert might lead the picker-up on a shoot to say "Pretty open cover in there, it won't take long to find that bird". Similarly a dense gorse and bramble thicket might produce "We'll never get all of them out, the cover is just too thick for the dogs".

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