Definitions for Calve

Calve calve

Spelling: [kav, kahv]
IPA: /kæv, kɑv/

Calve is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in Calve (acelv).

Definitions for Calve

verb (used with object)

  1. to give birth to (a calf).
  2. (of a glacier, an iceberg, etc.) to break off or detach (a piece):

verb (used without object)

  1. to give birth to a calf:
  2. (of a glacier, an iceberg, etc.) to break up or splinter so as to produce a detached piece.

Origin of Calve

before 1000; Middle English calven, Old English (Anglian) *calfian, derivative of calf calf1; cognate with Old English (West Saxon) cealfian

Examples for Calve

We have a goddess that makes the butter to come in the churn, curdles the milk for the cheese, and helps the cow to calve.

The assemblage was a brilliant one and calve was at her best.

When these pieces break away the inland ice is said to "calve."

These Welsh heifers will calve about May; and they are just the very thing for a cottager.

They will continue to give milk till eight months gone with calf, or till they calve again, if you continue to milk them.

How or why the principle obtained by soaking the calve's stomach produces coagulation has not yet been discovered.

It was once supposed that the gastric juice of the calve's stomach was acid, and produced coagulation by souring.

And Mrs. Bumpkin pointed out which ones had calved and which were expected to calve in the course of a few months.

And soon after some man said to him "The cow will be apt soon to calve," though it wasn't very near the time.

In taking some calve's-foot jelly from the fire, she had inadvertently overturned the boiling liquid.

Word Value for Calve
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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