📖 Definitions of "Calve"
verb
- 1
To give birth to a calf
- 2
To assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf
- 3
To give birth to (a calf)
- 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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