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Calver vs Culver - What's the difference?

calver | culver |

As nouns the difference between calver and culver

is that calver is a cow that produces young while culver is (British dialect, poetic) A dove or pigeon.

As a verb calver

is to cut into slices and pickle.

As a proper noun Culver is

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calver

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A cow that produces young.
    • Related terms
    * down-calver * first calver * second calver

    Etymology 2

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To cut into slices and pickle.
  • * (Massinger)
    • For a change, leave calvered salmon and eat sprats.
  • (obsolete) To crimp.
    • calvered salmon
    (Nares)
  • (obsolete) To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered.
    • grayling's flesh will calver
    (Catton)
    (Webster 1913)

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    culver

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (British dialect, poetic ) A dove or pigeon.
  • A dove, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus .
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vii:
    • Had he so doen, he had him snatcht away, / More light then Culuer in the Faulcons fist.
  • * 1885 , The book of the thousand nights and a night Vol. 5, Richard Burton:
    • a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon.
  • A culverin.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • Falcon and culver on each tower / Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower.

    Synonyms

    * wood pigeon