caliver
English
Etymology
Variant of calibre.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈkalɪvə/
Noun
caliver (plural calivers)
- (historical) A type of light musket.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- That done, running out into the streets, with a crosse-bow in one hand, and a caliver [transl. harquebouze] in the other, at two shoots, slew the two first Turks that came next to his gates […].
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