† ˈculver-house Obs.
A pigeon-house, a dove-cote. Also fig.
| 1340 Ayenb. 142 Þet is þet coluerhous huerinne resteþ and him deþ þe colure oure lhord. c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 554 Under thi colverhous in alle the brede Make mewes tweyne. 1587 J. Harmar tr. Beza's Serm. 279 (T.) Yet was this poor culverhouse sorer shaken. 1624 Gee Foot out of Snare 21 Who think the time is come, to pull downe our Culver⁓house, our little Church. 1796 W. Marshall W. England Gloss., Culver-house, pigeon-house or dove-cot. 1887 R. S. Ferguson in Archæol. Jrnl. June 105 An almost forgotten dovecot or ‘culverhouse’, as such are called in the south. |