covert hack

noun

A horse ridden to and from the hunt (as opposed to the hunter ridden during the hunt).

Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nouncovert hack (plural covert hacks)

plural covert hacks

  1. historicalhobbiesA horse ridden to and from the hunt (as opposed to the hunter ridden during the hunt).

    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; […]

    1862, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lady Audley's Secret
Cite this entry
APA

covert hack. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/covert%20hack

MLA

“covert hack.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/covert%20hack. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “covert hack,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/covert%20hack.

Source: covert hack on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.