covert hack

covert hack

English

Noun

covert hack (plural covert hacks)

  1. (hunting, historical) A horse ridden to and from the hunt (as opposed to the hunter ridden during the hunt).
    • 1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret:
      The honest young country squires, who talked all breakfast time of […] glorious runs of seven hours' hard riding over three counties, and a midnight homeward ride of thirty miles upon their covert hacks; […]
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