Calve vs Heifer - What's the difference?
calve | heifer |
To give birth to a calf.
To assist the giving of birth of a calf.
To break off or shed a large piece.
(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
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)- The glacier was starting to calve even as we watched.
- The sea was dangerous because of icebergs calving off the nearby glacier.