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caliver
/ˈkalɪvə/
noun 1name 1
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3VERB + CALIVER
hand
CALIVER + NOUN
harquebouze
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
1
A type of light musket.
0, giue me the ſpare men, and ſpare me the great ones. Put me a Calyuer into VVarts hand, Bardolph.
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[…].
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A surname.
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0, giue me the ſpare men, and ſpare me the great ones. Put me a Calyuer into VVarts hand, Bardolph.
Wiktionary02
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[…].
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