culver

See also: Culver

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʌlvə/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌlvə

Etymology 1

From Middle English culver, from Old English culufre, culfre, culfer, possibly borrowed from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula (little pigeon), from Latin columba (pigeon, dove).

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, “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’s Song” 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.
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Etymology 2

From culverin.

Noun

culver (plural culvers)

  1. A culverin, a kind of handgun or cannon.
Translations

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English culufre, culfre, culfer, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkulvər/

Noun

culver (plural culveres or culveren)

  1. A dove (Columba spp.)
    • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon 2:16, page 45r, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
      And he ſeide to hem þat ſelden culueris / take ȝe awei from hennes þeſe þingis .· ⁊ nyle ȝe make þe hous of my fadir an hows of marchaundiſe
      And he said to those who sold doves: "Take those things out of here; you won't make my father's house a place of business!"
  2. An affectionate term of familiarity.

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Descendants

  • English: culver

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