kiverlid

Etymology
Variant of.

Noun

 * 1)  A coverlet or comforter.
 * 2) 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....
 * 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.
 * 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....
 * "I've made a kiverlid for each of my daughters but the least one, and I ain't made her nar'," says a woman....