• IPA: /ˈkʌlvə/

From Middle English culver, from Old English culufre, culfre, culfer, possibly borrowed from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula, from Latin columba.

culver (plural culvers)

1. (now UK, south and east dialect or poetic) A dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:

     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

   • 1885, The book of the thousand nights and a night Vol. 5, Richard Francis Burton:

     a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon.

• wood pigeon, wood-pigeon, woodpigeon

From culverin.

culver (plural culvers)

1. A culverin, a kind of handgun or cannon.
   • 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC ↗:

     Falcon and culver on each tower / Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower.

1. Surname.
2. A number of places in USA:
   1. A town in Marshall County, Indiana.
   2. A minor city in Ottawa County, Kansas.
   3. An unincorporated community in Elliott County, Kentucky.
   4. An unincorporated community/and/twp in Saint Louis County, Minnesota.
   5. An extinct town in Bates County, Missouri.
   6. A minor city in Jefferson County, Oregon.