Plural of culver; doves or pigeons, or the plural of the common English name for certain bird species.
From Middle English culver (dove), derived from Old English culfre, which came from Latin columba (dove). The word culver was widely used in English through the medieval and Renaissance periods.
The word culver almost completely disappeared from English except in place names like 'Culverhouse' and surnames like 'Culver'—today we say 'dove' or 'pigeon,' but five hundred years ago, culver was the everyday word people used.
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