Fastened by dove-tailing a way of letting one timber into another, so that they cannot slip asunder.
·noun A <<Dove>>. II. Culver ·noun A <<Culverin>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A Saxon word for pigeon, whence Culver-cliff, Reculvers, &c., from being resorted to by those birds....
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; — chiefly used in composition; as, bob...
North out of Fenchurch Street, on the west side of Ironmongers Hall (S. 141). Partly stopped up and ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
North out of Fenchurch Street at 119 (P.O. Directory). In Langbourn Ward. First mention: O. and M. ...
Tenement called "le Culverkey" near Billingsgate, 2 H. VI. 1423 (Cal. L. Bk. K. p. 20). Mentioned i...
The fastenings of a ship's carlings into the beams. ...
·adj Having the tail cropped. ...
·adj Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks. ...
·adj Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed. ...
·adj Untidy; sluttish; slatternly. ...
·adj Having an expanded, or fan-shaped, tail; as, the fan-tailed pigeon. ...
·adj Having the outer tail feathers longer than the median ones; swallow-tailed; — said of many bir...
·adj Having a tapered tail, with the middle feathers longest; — said of birds. ...
·adj Having long and spatulate, or racket-shaped, tail feathers. ...
·adj Having a long, tapering tail like that of a rat. ...
·adj Having a red tail. ...
·adj Having the tail crossed by conspicuous bands of color. ...
·adj Having the tail, or lower part of the body, bright red. ...
·adj Having the outer feathers much the longest, the others decreasing regularly to the median ones....
·adj Having the tail quills ending in sharp, naked tips. ...
·adj Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid. ...
·adj Having a short, thick tail. ...
·adj United by dovetailing; dovetailed. II. Swallow-tailed ·adj Having a tail like that of a swallo...
·adj Having a tail which has the middle pair of feathers longest, the rest successively and decidedl...
·adj Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a w...
n. See onychogale. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
n. an Australian lizard, Trachydosaurus rugosus, Gray. ...