Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːvə/Category:English 2-syllable words#CALVERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CALVER

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    Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#CALVER
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkævɚ/Category:English 2-syllable words#CALVERCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#CALVER
• Rhymes: -ɑːvə(ɹ), -ævə(ɹ)Category:Rhymes:English/ɑːvə(ɹ)#CALVERCategory:Rhymes:English/ɑːvə(ɹ)/2 syllables#CALVERCategory:Rhymes:English/ævə(ɹ)#CALVERCategory:Rhymes:English/ævə(ɹ)/2 syllables#CALVER
• Homophone: carverCategory:English terms with homophones#CALVER (Received Pronunciation)

Noun

calver (plural calvers)Category:English lemmas#CALVERCategory:English nouns#CALVERCategory:English countable nouns#CALVERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CALVERCategory:Pages with entries#CALVERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CALVER

1. A cow that produces young.

Adjective

calverCategory:English lemmas#CALVERCategory:English adjectives#CALVERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CALVERCategory:Pages with entries#CALVERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CALVER

1. Of salmon: freshly caught.

   calver salmon

Verb

calver (third-person singular simple present calvers, present participle calvering, simple past and past participle calvered)Category:English lemmas#CALVERCategory:English verbs#CALVERCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CALVERCategory:Pages with entries#CALVERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CALVER

1. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#CALVER, transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#CALVER) To cut into slices and pickle.
   • 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):

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

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

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

     Category:English terms with quotations#CALVER

2. (obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#CALVER, intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#CALVER) To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered.
   • 1676, Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Angler:

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

     Category:English terms with quotations#CALVER

Alternative forms

• calvar, calvur

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkalvər/Category:Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation#CALVER

Adjective

calverCategory:Middle English lemmas#CALVERCategory:Middle English adjectives#CALVERCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#CALVERCategory:Pages with entries#CALVERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CALVER

1. (rareCategory:Middle English rare terms#CALVER, of salmon) Having curd-like flakes throughout.

References

• “calver, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Noun

calverCategory:Middle English alternative forms#CALVERCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#CALVERCategory:Pages with entries#CALVERCategory:Pages with 2 entries#CALVER

1. alternative form of calvere