Culver

Quick meaning: Culver is a noun meaning (now UK, south and east dialect or poetic) A dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.

Meaning

(now UK, south and east dialect or poetic) A dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Falcon and culver on each tower / Stood prompt, their deadly hail to shower; […]

Had he ſo doen, he had him ſnatcht away, / More light then Culuer in the Faulcons fiſt.

The palsie plagues my pulses when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen your culuers take, or matchles make your Chanticleare or sullen

Then he walked on a little and came to a goodly cage, than which was no goodlier there, and in it a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon, the bird renowned among birds as the minstrel of love-longing, with a collar of jewels about its neck marvellous fine and fair.

Word Forms

• culvers

Synonyms for culver

Depending on context, synonyms include woodpigeon.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fix, culvering, culverhouse, croodle, demi-culverin, columbary.

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