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Calve vs Heifer - What's the difference?

calve | heifer |

As a verb calve

is to give birth to a calf.

As a noun heifer is

a young cow, particularly one over one year old but which has not calved.

calve

English

Verb

(calv)
  • To give birth to a calf.
  • To assist the giving of birth of a calf.
  • To break off or shed a large piece.
  • The glacier was starting to calve even as we watched.
    The sea was dangerous because of icebergs calving off the nearby glacier.

    Anagrams

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    heifer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (label) A young cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.
  • * 1611 , KJV, Numbers 19:1-2
  • (label) A wife.
  • *1616 , Ben Jonson, Epicœne'', Ch. ii., in ''Works , Vol. I, p. 549:
  • A girl.
  • * 1853 , T.C. Haliburton, Sam Slick's Wise Saws , Vol. II., p. 282:
  • A cow: a large, unattractive, unpleasant woman.
  • * 2001 , Glenda Howard, Cita's World
  • Derived terms

    {{der3, heiferbud, heifer-bud , heifer calf , heifer dust , heiferhood , heifer paddock, heifer-paddock , heifer yearling , plow with one's heifer, plough with one's heifer}}