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Hulver vs Culver - What's the difference?

hulver | culver |

As nouns the difference between hulver and culver

is that hulver is holly, an evergreen shrub or tree while culver is (British dialect, poetic) A dove or pigeon.

As a proper noun Culver is

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hulver

English

Noun

  • (obsolete) holly, an evergreen shrub or tree
    • (Webster 1913)

    culver

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British dialect, poetic ) A dove or pigeon.
  • A dove, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus .
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
    • Had he so doen, he had him snatcht away, / More light then Culuer in the Faulcons fist.
  • * 1885 , The book of the thousand nights and a night Vol. 5, Richard Burton:
    • a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon.
  • A culverin.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Falcon and culver on each tower / Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower.

    Synonyms

    * wood pigeon