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    To calve is what English says when a cow — or another animal whose baby is called a calf, such as a whale or a deer — gives birth. A farmer might say the cow is going to calve tonight. City speakers more often say have a calf or give birth; calve belongs to farms, vets, and nature writing. Though actually, the same verb is stretched to ice: when a wall of glacier ice breaks off and falls into the sea, people say the glacier calves. That picture grew from the animal sense, not from a different spelling.

    （母牛等）生小牛、產犢

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組成From the noun calf. Middle English calven, from an Old English verb, from Proto-Germanic *kalbōną, to calve, from *kalbaz, calf. Dutch kalven and German kalben still mean the same thing.

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  • calfthe baby animal this verb is about; the verb is built from that noun

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

calveverb/kɑːv/

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    To give birth to a calf.

    • The farmer could tell Bessie was about to calve.
  • 2

    To assist in a cow’s giving birth to a calf.

    • The farmer calved Bessie for almost two hours.
  • 3

    To give birth to (a calf).

  • 4

    To shed a large piece.

    • The glacier was starting to calve even as we watched.
  • 5

    To break off.

    • The sea was dangerous because of icebergs calving off the nearby glacier.
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    To shed (a large piece); to set loose (a mass of ice).

    • The glacier was starting to calve an iceberg even as we watched.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。