Calver vs Carver - What's the difference?
calver | carver |
(obsolete) To cut into slices and pickle.
* (Massinger)
(obsolete) To crimp.
(obsolete) To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered.
Someone who carves.
(dated) A carving knife.
(dated) A butcher.
An armchair as part of a set of dining chairs (originally for the person who is to carve the meat).
*2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 215:
*:She began a circuit of the dining room, peering at the baronial fireplace with its andirons the size of torture racks, and heavy oak carvers like gnarled thrones.
As a noun calver
is a cow that produces young.As a verb calver
is (obsolete|transitive) to cut into slices and pickle.As a proper noun carver is
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Verb
(en verb)- For a change, leave calvered salmon and eat sprats.
- calvered salmon
- (Nares)
- grayling's flesh will calver
- (Catton)