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noun a heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries
noun a medieval musket
originFrom Middle English culveryne, from Old French coulevrine, from couleuvre (“snake”) (or from Latin colubrīnus), ultimately from Latin colubra, coluber (“snake”). Doublet of colubrine.
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