Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Covering
Cov′er·ing, n. Anything which covers or conceals, as a roof, a screen, a wrapper, clothing, etc.
Noah removed the covering of the ark. Gen. viii. 13.
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold. Job. xxiv. 7.
A covering over the well's mouth. 2 Sam. xvii. 19.