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† Culvert a. World English Historical Dictionary

† Culvert a. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. † Culvert a. Obs. Also 4 culvart, -vard; and see COLWARD. [a. OF. culvert, colvert, late L. collībertus fellow-freedman, in Middle Ages a serf, villain, one whose condition was intermediate between slavery and freedom, but nearer the former; hence, adj. abject, wretched, villainous, vile, infamous, etc.] Infamous, villainous, treacherous.

1 a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 96. No wouhleche nis so culuert ase is o pleinte wis.

2 a. 1300.  Floriz & Bl., 329. Þe porter is culuert and felun.

3 c. 1325.  Chron. Eng., 788, in Ritson, Metr. Rom., II. 303. The King hede a stiward, That was fel ant culvard.

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