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/ˈkʌlvə/ · noun
(now UK, south and east dialect or poetic) A dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus..
The palsie plagues my pulses when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen your culuers take, or matchles make your Chanticleare or sullen
Had he ſo doen, he had him ſnatcht away, / More light then Culuer in the Faulcons fiſt.
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.
Falcon and culver on each tower / Stood prompt, their deadly hail to shower; […]
Use culver when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Culver means (now UK, south and east dialect or poetic) A dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus..
Common synonyms include wood pigeon, wood-pigeon, woodpigeon.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The palsie plagues my pulses when I prigg yoͬ: piggs or pullen your culuers take, or matchles make your Chanticleare or sullen
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