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culvers

culvers is the plural of culver.

Meaning of culver

Noun (1)

culver (plural culvers)

  1. (UK, south and east dialect or poetic) A dove or pigeon, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.
    • Had he ſo doen, he had him ſnatcht away, / More light then Culuer in the Faulcons fiſt.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 281

Noun (2)

culver (plural culvers)

  1. A culverin, a kind of handgun or cannon.
    • Falcon and culver on each tower / Stood prompt, their deadly hail to shower; […]1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, 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...

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Questions about culvers

What is culvers the plural of?
Culvers is the plural of culver.

Words near culvers in the dictionary

  1. culvering
  2. culverings
  3. culverins
  4. culverkey
  5. culverkeys
  6. culvers
  7. culvert
  8. culvertage
  9. culvertail
  10. culvertailed
  11. culvertails

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