Culver

Origin

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").

Full definition of culver

Noun

1. (British dialect, poetic) A dove or pigeon.
2. (now UK, south and east dialect) A dove, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:Had he so doen, he had him snatcht away,
  More light then Culuer in the Faulcons fist.
• 1885, The book of the thousand nights and a night Vol. 5, Richard Burton:a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon.
3. A culverin.
• Sir Walter ScottFalcon and culver on each tower
  Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower.

Synonyms

• wood pigeon