Brewer's: Culver

Pigeon. (Old English, colver; Latin, columba; hence culver-house, a dove-cote.)

On liquid wing, The sounding culver shoots.

Thomson: Spring 452.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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