Variant or alternative term for a soldier who operates a culverin cannon; another name for a culverineer.
A variant of culverineer, using the suffix -er instead of -eer to indicate someone who operates or uses a culverin. This form appears less frequently in historical texts than culverineer.
English in the 1600s was still flexible about how to name new military specialists—you could call them culverineer or culveriner, and different regions and writers chose different versions, showing how language was still settling on standard terms.
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