Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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stalking-horse | Yes | No | No | No |
covert | Yes | Yes | No | No |
stalking-horse (noun) | covert (noun) |
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a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game | a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something |
screen consisting of a figure of a horse behind which a hunter hides while stalking game | a flock of coots |
something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason | |
a candidate put forward to divide the Opposition or to mask the true candidate |
stalking-horse (adjective) | covert (adjective) |
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secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed | |
(of a wife) being under the protection of her husband |