"caliver" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈkalɪvə/ [UK] Forms: calivers [plural]
Etymology: Variant of calibre. Head templates: {{en-noun}} caliver (plural calivers)
  1. (historical) A type of light musket. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Firearms
    Sense id: en-caliver-en-noun--r6bjeiL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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            "Tools",
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            "Human behaviour",
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          "ref": "1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "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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        "(historical) A type of light musket."
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