culver
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈkʌlvə/
culver (plural culvers)
- (now UK, south and east dialect or poetic) A dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
- Had he so doen, he had him snatcht away, / More light then Culuer in the Faulcons fist.
- c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o' Bedlam” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665):
- The palsie plagues my pulses
when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen
your culuers take, or matchles make
your Chanticleare or sullen
- The palsie plagues my pulses
- 1885, The book of the thousand nights and a night Vol. 5, Richard Burton ↗:
- a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
culver (plural culvers)
- A culverin, a kind of handgun or cannon.
- 1805, Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel:
- Falcon and culver on each tower / Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower.
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