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Definition of Culver
1. n. A dove.
2. n. A culverin.
Definition of Culver
1. Noun. (''British dialect, poetic'') A dove or pigeon. ¹
2. Noun. (context: now UK south and east dialect) A dove, now specifically of the species ''Columba palumbus''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Culver
1. a pigeon [n -S] - See also: pigeon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Culver
Literary usage of Culver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"The appellees were fully Justified in acting on the hypothesis that culver had
previously acquired the shares, for the certificate) expressly certified that ..."
2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1908)
"So far as appears from the record in this case, MC culver, Elias W. culver, her
husband, Ed. W. culver, HA culver, and JE culver, her sons, and Newton Mills ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"culver. A pigeon, or turtle dove. Sax. ... culver HOUSE. A pigeon-house. ...
culver being columba, and the little ..."
4. Pioneer Sketches of Long Point Settlement, Or, Norfolk's Foundation Builders by Egbert Americus Owen (1898)
"IN the culver family, of Norfolk, were four brothers who married four culver
sisters. ... Jabez culver; and the sisters were daughters of Timothy culver, ..."
5. Military Education in the United States by Ira Louis Reeves (1914)
"The culver Military Academy was founded in 1894 by Mr. Henry Harrison culver of St.
Louis, Missouri. The School has been military in character since its ..."
6. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"(Old English, col- ter; Latin, columba ; hence culver-house, a dove-cote. ...
The keys or во wen of the culver or columba, i.«, «olum- bine. ..."
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