Dictionary entry

Dovecot

Webster's Dictionary 1913

{ Dove″cot′ (?), Dove″cote′ (?), } n. A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house.

Like an eagle in a dovecote, I

Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.