Obs. A pigeon-house, a dove-cote. Also fig.
1340. Ayenb., 142. Þet is þet coluerhous huerinne resteþ and him deþ þe colure oure lhord.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., I. 554. Under thi colverhous in alle the brede Make mewes tweyne.
1587. J. Harmar, trans. Beza’s Serm., 279 (T.). Yet was this poore culuer-house sorer shaken.
1624. Gee, Foot out of Snare, 21. Who think the time is come, to pull downe our Culverhouse, our little Church.
1796. W. Marshall, W. England, Gloss., Culver house: pigeon house or dove cot.
1887. R. S. Ferguson, in Archaeol. Jrnl., June, 105. An almost forgotten dovecot or ‘culverhouse,’ as such are called in the south.
