Definitions for calves

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Spelling: [kavz, kahvz]
IPA: /kævz, kɑvz/

Calves is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in calves (acelsv).

Definitions for calves

noun

  1. plural of calf1 .
  2. plural of calf2 .
  3. the young of the domestic cow or other bovine animal.
  4. the young of certain other mammals, as the elephant, seal, and whale.
  5. calfskin leather.
  6. Informal. an awkward, silly boy or man.
  7. a mass of ice detached from a glacier, iceberg, or floe.
  8. the fleshy part of the back of the human leg below the knee.

Idioms

  1. in calf, (of a cow or other animal having calves) pregnant.
  2. kill the fatted calf, to prepare an elaborate feast in welcome or celebration.

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 calves

before 900; Middle English; Old English cealf, calf; cognate with Old Saxon kalf, Old Norse kalfr, Old High German kalb

Examples for calves

Also the calves bleating and the lambs callin' on their dams.

I met him in the front yard where we keep the calves and let the sheep run.

He wears a black Under Armour T-shirt, red basketball shorts, sneakers, and white socks hiked up to his calves.

They not only milk these cows, but they tenderly raise their calves.

In Mexico, crowds gather to watch dwarf bullfighters taunt their calves with red capes for pay of $50 to $100.

Before the drought, the Smiths owned about 150 cows and their calves and as many as 100 yearlings.

Their calves have evolved to stand upright within five minutes of birth, and to run alongside their mothers within 20.

They had six horses, three cows, two calves, and some twenty sheep.

And none but calves the most immature can possibly sympathize with him.

My team and I learned that family units are split up and calves are taken from mothers and moved to other parks.

Word Value for calves
Scrable

11

Words with friends

14

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