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calvered
ˈcalvered, ppl. a. ? Obs. (exc. Hist.) Also 7 calvert, calvored. [f. calver v.] Used from end of 16th c. app. in room of the earlier calver a.: see calver v. Cf. quots. 1822 and 1860.1610 B. Jonson Alch. ii. ii. (1616) 622 My foot-boy shall eate phesants, caluerd salmons. a 1640 Massinger Guardian i...
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calver
▪ I. calver, n.1 (ˈkɑːvə(r)) [f. calve v. + -er1.] A cow that calves, or bears young.1785 Worfat Bran New Wark 322 (E.D.S.) He that sell'd me tother day a barren cow and a calf, for a calver. 1808 J. C. Curwen Hints on Feeding Stock 177 The milk of the sixth, a winter calver, was reserved for the fa...
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jack-snipe
jack snipe, ˈjack-ˌsnipe [See Jack n.1 29, 34 b.] A small species of snipe, Scolopax (Gallinago) gallinula; also called half-snipe. Also applied to the common American or Wilson's snipe, Gallinago Wilsoni, the Dunlin, Tringa alpina (Shetland), and the pectoral sandpiper of N. America, Tringa maculat...
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