calve
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.
to give birth to (a calf).
(of a glacier, an iceberg, etc.) to break off or detach (a piece): The glacier calved an iceberg.
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How to use calve in a sentence
We won’t be watching glaciers calve from a cruise ship or fighting for photo ops from a crowded tour bus in Denali.
Come Test Gear in Alaska with Outside Editor in Chief Christoper Keyes | mturner | December 15, 2021 | Outside OnlineWhen perched on this mound, called a moraine, tidewater glaciers flow more slowly and calve fewer icebergs, which allows them to advance even in unfavorable climates.
Seeing your first iceberg calve makes you realize how small you are and what your place on the planet actually is.
Antarctica cruises are booming. But can the continent handle it? | Elizabeth Heath | April 15, 2021 | Washington PostSome come to see calving glaciers and climate change in action.
Antarctica cruises are booming. But can the continent handle it? | Elizabeth Heath | April 15, 2021 | Washington PostFarmers do not kill their breeding ewes in March, nor butcher cows that are to calve in a month; it does not pay.
In New England Fields and Woods | Rowland E. Robinson
They will continue to give milk till eight months gone with calf, or till they calve again, if you continue to milk them.
Soil Culture | J. H. WaldenIn taking some calve's-foot jelly from the fire, she had inadvertently overturned the boiling liquid.
Trevlyn Hold | Mrs. Henry WoodThey have milk at all times, and may be milked all the year, excepting four or five days before they calve.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume V (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonFin whales calve and breed in winter, mostly in temperate waters.
Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic | Stephen Leatherwood
British Dictionary definitions for calve
/ (kɑːv) /
to give birth to (a calf)
(of a glacier or iceberg) to release (masses of ice) in breaking up
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