† ˈcolward, a. Obs.
[app. a perverted form of culvert, in OF. culvert, colvert, etc.]
Villainous, nefarious, perfidious, infamous.
| c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. B. 181 For couetyse, & colwarde & croked dedez. c 1330 Florice & Bl. (1857) 339 The porter is coluard [Camb. MS. culuert] & feloun. |