culverin

[ kuhl-ver-in ]

noun
  1. medieval form of musket.

  2. a kind of heavy cannon used in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Origin of culverin

1
1400–50; late Middle English <Middle French coulevrine<Latin colubrīna, feminine of colubrīnuscolubrine

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culverin

/ (ˈkʌlvərɪn) /


noun
  1. a long-range medium to heavy cannon used during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries

  2. a medieval musket

Origin of culverin

1
C15: from Old French coulevrine, from couleuvre, from Latin coluber serpent

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