covert vs thicket

covert

noun
  • Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide. 

  • A covering. 

  • A disguise. 

  • A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers. 

  • A hiding place. 

adj
  • Under coverture. 

  • Secret, surreptitious, concealed. 

thicket

noun
  • A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse. 

  • A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract. 

  • The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software. 

How often have the words covert and thicket occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )