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