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calve
[ kav, kahv ]
verb (used without object)
- to give birth to a calf:
The cow is expected to calve tomorrow.
- (of a glacier, an iceberg, etc.) to break up or splinter so as to produce a detached piece.
verb (used with object)
- to give birth to (a calf ).
- (of a glacier, an iceberg, etc.) to break off or detach (a piece):
The glacier calved an iceberg.
calve
/ kɑːv /
verb
- to give birth to (a calf)
- (of a glacier or iceberg) to release (masses of ice) in breaking up
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Farmers do not kill their breeding ewes in March, nor butcher cows that are to calve in a month; it does not pay.
They will continue to give milk till eight months gone with calf, or till they calve again, if you continue to milk them.
In taking some calve's-foot jelly from the fire, she had inadvertently overturned the boiling liquid.
They have milk at all times, and may be milked all the year, excepting four or five days before they calve.
Fin whales calve and breed in winter, mostly in temperate waters.
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