Also Calab-, caleb-. The name of King Arthur’s sword. See EXCALIBUR.
1297. R. Glouc., 174. Mid is suerd he was igurd … Calibourne it was icluped. Ibid., 208. Calebourne is gode suerd.
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth. (1847), 353. The kyng with Calaburne knyghtly hym strykes.
1799. S. Turner, Anglo-Sax. (1830), I. III. iii. 175. A sword, fancied to have been his caliburno.
1813. Scott, Trierm., I. xv. On Caliburn’s resistless brand.
