culverin
Americannoun
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medieval form of musket.
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a kind of heavy cannon used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
noun
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a long-range medium to heavy cannon used during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries
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a medieval musket
Etymology
Origin of culverin
1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French coulevrine < Latin colubrīna, feminine of colubrīnus colubrine
Example Sentences
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Cross-Molin, from the Blowbury, followed, Lucky Shot skipped, Coranto wallowed, Then Counter Vair, the declared-to-win, Stable-fellow of Cross-Molin; Culverin last, with Cannonade, Formed rearguard to the grand parade.
From Right Royal by Masefield, John
"Where the deuce, then, is the use of it?" cried Captain Culverin; "it must be a very odd kind of music which we cannot hear."
From The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by Carleton, William
They have merited already on the waterside particular titles: the first is called Hogshead; the second Culverin; and the third Musket.
From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by Aitken, George A.
Hogshead is a prettier fellow than Culverin by two quarts, and Culverin than Musket by a full pint.
From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by Aitken, George A.
Culverin, kul′vėr-in, n. one of the earlier forms of cannon of great length, generally an 18-pounder, weighing 50 cwt.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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