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English
Etymology 1
calve + -er
Pronunciation
Noun
calver (plural calvers)
- A cow that produces young.
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Etymology 2
As the adjective predates the verb, possibly from Middle English calver (“interspersed with flakes”), from Old English calwer. Cognate with Scots caller.
Adjective
calver
- Of salmon: freshly caught.
- calver salmon
Verb
calver (third-person singular simple present calvers, present participle calvering, simple past and past participle calvered)
- (obsolete, transitive) 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; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the GB 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 […]
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.
- (obsolete, intransitive) 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.
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Middle English
Etymology 1
Possibly inherited from Old English calwer (“curds”), of unknown origin. The development of /lw/ to /lv/ before /r/ would be unparalleled, but there are no clear counterexamples either.
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Pronunciation
Adjective
calver
- (rare, of salmon) Having curd-like flakes throughout.
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Etymology 2
Noun
calver
- plural of calf (“calf (young cow)”)