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

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne