0 past simple and past participle of calve
1 When a cow calves, it gives birth to a calf (= a young cow):
That would create a difference between a farm where the heifers had not calved and a farm where they had calved.
Immature animals— those which have not calved—and flocks must be included.
If a farmer keeps a heifer calf to breed from, he gets no subsidy for two years, and none in the third year until the heifer has calved.
This glacier retreat exposed a rapidly expanding lagoon that is filled with icebergs calved from its front.
By 1948 the adjacent fjord had filled in, and the glacier no longer calved and was able to continue its advance.
They slowly cut north, yard by yard, through the increasingly violent pack ice, as larger ice bergs drifted in and calved still more loose ice.
As recently as the mid-1980s the glacier was a tidewater glacier and calved icebergs from a wall of ice 60 m (200 feet) tall.
In 1766 another expedition noticed that the glacier did reach the lagoon and had calved into icebergs.
