calver
See also: Calver
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɑːvə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkævɚ/
- Rhymes: -ɑːvə(ɹ), -ævə(ɹ)
- Homophone: carver (Received Pronunciation)
Noun edit
calver (plural calvers)
- A cow that produces young.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
cow that produces young
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Etymology 2 edit
As the adjective predates the verb, possibly from Middle English calver (“interspersed with flakes”), from Old English calwer. Cognate with Scots caller.
Adjective edit
calver
- Of salmon: freshly caught.
- calver salmon
Verb edit
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[1], 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.
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
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.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
calver
- (rare, of salmon) Having curd-like flakes throughout.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “calver, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
calver