calver

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UK/ˈkɑːvə/US/ˈkævɚ/

noun

A cow that produces young.

“calver salmon”

OriginMiddle English calver ← Old English calwer →
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Meanings

calver1

nouncalver (plural calvers)

plural calvers

  1. A cow that produces young.

calver2

adjective
  1. Of salmon: freshly caught.

    calver salmon

verbcalver (third-person singular simple present calvers, present participle calvering, simple past and past participle calvered)

present singular third person calvers · participle present calvering · participle past calvered · past calvered

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo cut into slices and pickle.

    Great lords sometimes / For change leave calver'd salmon and eat sprats.

    1633, Philip Massinger, “The Guardian”, in William Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger, published 1845, act 4, scene 2, page 429
    1 more example

    My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]

    1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
  2. intransitiveobsoleteTo bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered.

    [A Grayling's] flesh will so easily calver that […][it] is very good meat at all times.

    1676, Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Angler

Calver3

proper nounCalver (countable and uncountable, plural Calvers)

plural Calvers

  1. countableuncountableA village and civil parish of Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England (OS grid ref SK240745).
  2. countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.

CalVer4

nounCalVer (uncountable)
  1. abbreviationuncountablecomputingAbbreviation of calendar versioning.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
calendar versioning

Origin

calver · noun

From calve + -er.

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calver · adjective, verb

  1. Old Englishcalwer
  2. Middle Englishcalver“interspersed with flakes”
  3. Englishcalver

As the adjective predates the verb, possibly from Middle English calver (“interspersed with flakes”), from Old English calwer. Cognate with Scots caller.

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Calver · proper noun

  1. Old Englishcalf“calf”
  2. EnglishCalver

From Old English calf (“calf”) + ōfer (“slope, ridge”).

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Translations

Finnish emolehmä
  • emolehmäcow that produces young
Spanish vaca materna, vaca madre
  • vaca maternacow that produces young
  • vaca madrecow that produces young
  • vaca estralcow that produces young
  • vaca en estrocow that produces young
  • vaca preñadacow that produces young

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with calver

laverpalaverslaverhalver
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Sounds the same

carver (Received Pronunciation)

Anagrams

carvelclaver
Cite this entry
APA

calver. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calver

MLA

“calver.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calver. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “calver,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/calver.

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