He wears a black Under Armour T-shirt, red basketball shorts, sneakers, and white socks hiked up to his calves.
In Mexico, crowds gather to watch dwarf bullfighters taunt their calves with red capes for pay of $50 to $100.
My team and I learned that family units are split up and calves are taken from mothers and moved to other parks.
Their calves have evolved to stand upright within five minutes of birth, and to run alongside their mothers within 20.
Before the drought, the Smiths owned about 150 cows and their calves and as many as 100 yearlings.
Also the calves bleating and the lambs callin' on their dams.
And none but calves the most immature can possibly sympathize with him.
They had six horses, three cows, two calves, and some twenty sheep.
They not only milk these cows, but they tenderly raise their calves.
I met him in the front yard where we keep the calves and let the sheep run.
fleshy part of the lower leg, early 14c., from Old Norse kalfi, source unknown; possibly from the same Germanic root as calf (n.1).
"young cow," Old English cealf (Anglian cælf) "young cow," from West Germanic *kalbam (cf. Middle Dutch calf, Old Norse kalfr, German Kalb, Gothic kalbo), perhaps from PIE *gelb(h)-, from root *gel- "to swell," hence, "womb, fetus, young of an animal." Elliptical sense of "leather made from the skin of a calf" is from 1727. Used of icebergs that break off from glaciers from 1818.
Old English cealfian, from cealf "calf" (see calf (n.1)). Of icebergs, 1837. Related: Calved; calving.
calf (kāf)
n. pl. calves (kāvz)
The fleshy, muscular back part of the human leg between the knee and ankle, formed chiefly by the bellies of the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles.
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