How do you pronounce caliver?

The recorded pronunciation is /ˈkalɪvə/.

caliver

/ˈkalɪvə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.04 in modern English

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"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[…]."

Variant of calibre.

calivers (plural)

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