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kill-calf

kill-calf is the alternative form of killcalf.

Meaning of killcalf

Noun

killcalf

  1. (obsolete) A butcher.
    • With any summe you are afraid to lose / But in the night, but then take heed of those / Base Padding Rascalls, for their kill-calfe law / I am not priuy to, I neuer saw / Them, nor their actions, then I cannot show / How to preuent the thing I doe not know.1628, John Clavell, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life, page 35
  2. (figuratively, obsolete) A violent person.

Questions about kill-calf

What is kill-calf the alternative form of?
Kill-calf is the alternative form of killcalf.

Words near kill-calf in the dictionary

  1. kill zone
  2. kill zones
  3. kill'd
  4. kill-buck
  5. kill-bucks
  6. kill-calf
  7. kill-courtesies
  8. kill-courtesy
  9. kill-cow
  10. kill-cows
  11. kill-death ratio

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