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.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 96. No wouhleche nis so culuert ase is o pleinte wis.
a. 1300. Floriz & Bl., 329. Þe porter is culuert and felun.
c. 1325. Chron. Eng., 788, in Ritson, Metr. Rom., II. 303. The King hede a stiward, That was fel ant culvard.
