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calve

 : 
Verb (usu participle)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb calve has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

calvev. i. [AS. cealfian. See Calf.].
  •  To bring forth a calf.  Job xxi. 10.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To bring forth young; to produce offspring.  [1913 Webster]
    "Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?"  [1913 Webster]
    "The grassy clods now calved."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To throw off fragments which become icebergs; -- said of a glacier.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

calve, v.
1 a intr. give birth to a calf. b tr. (esp. in passive) give birth to (a calf).
2 tr. (also absol.) (of an iceberg) break off or shed (a mass of ice).

Etymology
OE calfian
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