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calvering

calvering is the present participle and gerund of calver.

Meaning of calver

Verb

calver (third-person singular simple present calvers, present participle calvering, simple past and past participle calvered)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To cut into slices and pickle.
    • My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]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, (please specify the Internet...
  2. (intransitive, obsolete) To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered.
    • [A Grayling's] flesh will so easily calver that […][it] is very good meat at all times.1676, Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Angler

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Questions about calvering

What is calvering the present participle and gerund of?
Calvering is the present participle and gerund of calver.

Words near calvering in the dictionary

  1. calveolin
  2. calver
  3. calvered
  4. calveren
  5. calverial
  6. calvering
  7. Calverley
  8. Calverleys
  9. calvers
  10. Calvert
  11. Calvert County

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