culverin
Meaning
- (historical) Any of a range of early gunpowder-fired guns of various sizes, from firearm to artillery.
- (historical) Any of a range of early gunpowder-fired guns of various sizes, from firearm to artillery.
Synonyms
half-banded snake eel
halfbanded snake eel
halfbanded snake-eel
Translations
culebrina
Feldschlange
couleuvrine
colubrina
Leiuranus semicinctus
veldslang
colubrinaPronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkʌlvəɹɪn/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English culveryne, from Old French coulevrine, from couleuvre (“snake”) (or from Latin colubrīnus), ultimately from Latin colubra, coluber (“snake”). Doublet of colubrine.
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