'Calve' definitions:
Definition of 'calve'
From: WordNet
verb
Release ice; "The icebergs and glaciers calve" [syn: calve, break up]
verb
Birth; "the whales calve at this time of year" [syn: calve, have young]
Definition of 'Calve'
From: GCIDE
- Calve \Calve\ (k[aum]v), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Calved 3; p. pr. & vb. n. Calving.] [AS. cealfian. See Calf.]
- 1. To bring forth a calf. "Their cow calveth." --Job xxi. 10. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To bring forth young; to produce offspring. [1913 Webster]
- Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve? --Job xxxix. 1. [1913 Webster]
- The grassy clods now calved. --Molton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Phys. Geog.) To throw off fragments which become icebergs; -- said of a glacier. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]