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Calve

/kɑːv/

To give birth to a calf

📖 Definitions of "Calve"

verb
  1. 1

    To give birth to a calf

  2. 2

    To assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf

  3. 3

    To give birth to (a calf)

  4. 4

    (especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) to shed a large piece, e.g. an iceberg or a smaller block of ice (coming off an iceberg)

    "The glacier was starting to calve even as we watched."

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