kiverlid

== English == === Etymology === Variant of coverlet. === Noun === kiverlid (plural kiverlids) (chiefly dialect) A coverlet or comforter. A carpet or rug. ==== Quotations ==== 1824, Lydia Sigourney, Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since, Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke and Sons, page 110 "I ha'nt been used to seein' kiverlids spread on the floor to walk on. We are glad to get 'em to kiver us up with a nights." Did I tell you how they sleep in Japan? Even as you and I bivouacked near the White Mountains; on the floor. A coverlid, (or as I heard a senator call it, a kiverlid) stuffed like one of our comforters, is spread upon the plank, and a billet of wood, with a place cut for the head, stands substitute for a pillow.... An' his piller's all ruffled up, an' the kiverlid all white ez snow. "I've made a kiverlid for each of my daughters but the least one, and I ain't made her nar'," says a woman....