culver
See also: Culver
English
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈkʌlvə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌlvə
Etymology 1
editFrom 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
editculver (plural culvers)
- (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, page 281:
- 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
- The palsie plagues my pulses
- 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Uns al-Wujud and the Wazir’s Daughter al-Ward Fi’l-Akmam or Rose-in-Hood. [Night 376.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume V, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, page 49:
- 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.
Synonyms
editDerived terms
editTranslations
editColumba palumbus — see wood pigeon
Etymology 2
editFrom culverin, perhaps by confusion with culver (“dove or pigeon”).[1]
Noun
editculver (plural culvers)
- A culverin, a kind of handgun or cannon.
- 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, stanza XVII, page 108:
- Falcon and culver on each tower / Stood prompt, their deadly hail to shower; […]
Translations
editculverin — see culverin
References
edit- ^ “culver, n.2”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Middle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old English culufre, culfre, culfer, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *columbra, from Latin columbula.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editculver (plural culveres or culveren)
- A dove (Columba spp.)
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[1], 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!"
- An affectionate term of familiarity.
Synonyms
editDescendants
edit- English: culver
References
edit- “culver, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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