culver
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈkʌlvə/
Noun

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, 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
    • 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.
Synonyms Noun

culver (plural culvers)

  1. 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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