Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A dove or pigeon.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dove; a pigeon.
  • noun Same as culverin.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A dove.
  • noun A culverin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun poetic A dove or pigeon.
  • noun A dove, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.
  • noun A culverin.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old English culufre, from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula, diminutive of columba, dove.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

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

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Examples

  • Then he went on a little and came to a handsome cage, than which there was no goodlier there, and in it a culver, that is to Say, a wood-pigeon, the bird renowned among the birds as the singer of love-longing, with a collar of jewels about its neck, wonder-goodly of ordinance.

    The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV Anonymous 1879

  • Friday, March 27 2009 service BLOWS in 90232 – culver city and many parts of LA.

    Poll: Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy AT&T’s iPhone 2009

  • August 29th, 2009 one day i got a round trip train ticket to culver city california

    one day i got a round trip train ticket to culver city california thecoughlin 2009

  • About time Harrabin and Black started chasing up stories of the IPCC's failings a bit more themselves instead of sitting on them for months at a time as with the CRU emails. paul culver

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

  • 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,63 the bird renowned among birds as the minstrel of love-longing, with a collar of jewels about its neck marvellous fine and fair.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • O culver of the copse, with salams I greet, v. 49.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Moreover, in that garden were birds of all breeds, ring-dove and cushat and nightingale and culver, each singing his several song, and amongst them the lady, swaying gracefully to and fro in her beauty and grace and symmetry and loveliness and ravishing all who saw her.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Uns al-Wujud had ended his verse, the wood-culver awoke from its brooding and cooed a reply to his lines and shrilled and trilled with its thrilling notes till it all but spake with human speech; 65 and the tongue of the case talked for it and recited these couplets,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • What do you bet I just paid for a culver for that brand spankin' new gravel parking lot I'ma installing on the mountain!

    BARTER POETICS 2007

  • Update: He didn't charge for a culver....heheheheheheheh.....

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

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