culver
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of culver
before 900; Middle English; Old English culfer, culfre < Vulgar Latin *columbra, for Latin columbula, equivalent to columb ( a ) dove + -ula -ule
Example Sentences
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Leesburg police Investigator Jamie Chatman says the victim was traveling on a John Deere Zero-Turn mower when he lost control and went into a culver with the mower landing on top of him.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 17, 2018
Broad and white, and polished as silver, On she goes under fruit-laden trees; Sunk in leafage cooeth the culver, And 'plaineth of love's disloyalties.
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss
Broad and white, and polished as silver, On she goes under fruit-laden trees: Sunk in leafage cooeth the culver, And 'plaineth of love's disloyalties.
From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
A more descriptive name is that of ringdove, easily explained by the white collar, but the bird is also known as cushat, queest, or even culver.
From Birds in the Calendar by Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George)
Broad and white, and polished as silver, On she goes under fruit-laden trees; Sunk in leafage cooeth the culver, And 'plaineth of love's disloyalties.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean
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