Pigeon. (Old English, colver; Latin, columba; hence culver-house, a dove-cote.)
“On liquid wing,
The sounding culver shoots.”
Thomson: Spring 452.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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