† culver-housen.
Obsolete.
A pigeon-house, a dove-cote. Also figurative.
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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 142 Þet is þet coluerhous huerinne resteþ and him deþ þe colure oure lhord.
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 554 Under thi colverhous in alle the brede Make mewes tweyne.
1587 J. Harmar tr. T. de Bèze Serm. 279 (T.) Yet was this poor culverhouse sorer shaken.
1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare 21 Who think the time is come, to pull downe our Culver~house, our little Church.
1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms W. Devonshire in Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 325 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.
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