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verb-intransitive. To give birth to a calf.

verb-intransitive. To break at an edge, so that a portion separates. Used of a glacier or iceberg.

v. To give birth to (a calf).

v. To set loose (a mass of ice). Used of a glacier or iceberg.

v. To give birth to a calf.

v. To assist the giving of birth of a calf.

v. To break off or shed a large piece.

verb-intransitive. To bring forth a calf.

verb-intransitive. To bring forth young; to produce offspring.

verb-intransitive. To throw off fragments which become icebergs; -- said of a glacier.

To bring forth a calf or calves: sometimes used contemptuously of human beings, and by Milton of the earth at the creation of cattle, etc.

To become separated from or lose a portion of itself: said of a glacier when icebergs are broken off from it.

To become detached and fall inward, as earth or rock from the walls of a cutting: with in. Now cave in.

To give birth to, as a cow to a calf; bring forth.

v. birth

v. release ice

"As Brinkley reminds us early on, Alaska is a land of wonderful verbiage - a place where glaciers "calve" shed hunks of ice, where the countryside is "the bush," where you can visit Misty Fiords and Gates of the Arctic, the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and the Island of the Standing Stone."

calved    calves    calving   

bear    give birth    birth    have    deliver    separate    divide    part   

calf    calves   

calved    calving   

calf    lamb    thigh    colt    goat    buttock    forearm    ox    ankle    torso