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calve

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5 lettersPronunciation /kɑːv/Part of speech verbSorted acelvStarts with CEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. give birth to (a calf)

Word origin

From Middle English calven, from Old English *calfian, cealfian, from Proto-West Germanic *kalbōn, from Proto-Germanic *kalbōną (“to calve”), from *kalbaz (“calf”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian koolvje, Dutch kalven, German Low German kalven, German kalben, Swedish kalva, Icelandic kálfa.

Used in a sentence

  • The farmer could tell Bessie was about to calve.
  • The farmer calved Bessie for almost two hours.
  • The glacier was starting to calve even as we watched.

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