Associations to the word «Culverin»

Wiktionary

CULVERIN, noun. A kind of handgun.
CULVERIN, noun. A large cannon.

Dictionary definition

CULVERIN, noun. A heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries.
CULVERIN, noun. A medieval musket.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope