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<p><a href="page.php?w=Image%3ACoulevriniers.jpg">thumb</a>A <b>culverin</b> was initially an ancestor of the hand-held <a href="page.php?w=arquebus">arquebus</a>, but the term was later used to describe a type of <a href="page.php?w=Middle_Ages">medieval</a> and <a href="page.php?w=Renaissance">Renaissance</a> <a href="page.php?w=cannon">cannon</a>. The word is derived from the antiquated "culuering" and the <a href="page.php?w=French_language">French</a> <i>couleuvrine</i> (from <i>couleuvre</i> "<a href="page.php?w=grass_snake">grass snake</a>",</p><p>
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