Crossword clues for calved
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calve \Calve\ (k[aum]v), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Calved 3; p. pr. & vb. n. Calving.] [AS. cealfian. See Calf.]
To bring forth a calf. ``Their cow calveth.''
--Job xxi. 10.-
To bring forth young; to produce offspring.
Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?
--Job xxxix. 1.The grassy clods now calved.
--Molton. (Phys. Geog.) To throw off fragments which become icebergs; -- said of a glacier.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: calve)
WordNet
adj. (used of cattle especially domestic cattle) born
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "calved".
I had calved cows and farrowed sows till my arms ached and the skin peeled off, I had been knocked down, trampled on and sprayed liberally with every kind of muck.
The whole thing was a most imposing creation, obviously designed by somebody who had never seen a cow calved and having the disadvantage that anybody wearing it would be pretty well immobilised.
Yet southward, a furlong or so distant, silhouetting an enormous mass of ice that had calved away from the glacier, there came a faint golden glow.
The view was blocked by the great piece that had calved off from the glacial wall.
At the base of the mound, they gazed at the solid mass rearing up, searching in the bright moonlight for a way onto the calved bulk.
Initial reports had suggested that the southern edge of the northern continent had many glaciers which constantly calved into the unobstructed oceans that girdled the planet.
Glaciers calved, huge chunks splintering off, plummeting into the sea with a roaring crack, surfacing through a rush of displaced waters, displaying new surfaces.
Breakup was just beginning there, even as winter was beginning in the North, and great rushes of water spumed in the air as the icebergs broke free and calved from the icepack.
Barren escarpments of solid rock flanked the frigid mass, standing in sullen silence as the glacier gouged its irresistible passage toward the water where it calved section after section the way a butcher slices sausage.
The bergs were not the least worn, but looked as if they had calved quite recently.
There were crops to be tended, and several of the cows that hadn't yet calved were due to drop.