calverとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːvə/
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkævɚ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑːvə(ɹ), -ævə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: carver (Received 発音)

名詞

calver (複数形 calvers)

1. A cow that produces young.

関連する語

• down-calver
• first calver
• second calver

語源 2

Unknown. The adjective predates the verb. Related to Scots caller.

形容詞

calver

1. Of salmon: freshly caught.

   calver salmon

動詞

calver (三人称単数 現在形 calvers, 現在分詞 calvering, 過去形および過去分詞形 calvered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cut into slices and pickle.
   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, OCLC 1008120557; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, OCLC 52009618, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]

   • 1633, Massinger, Philip, “The Guardian”, in Gifford, William, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger‎^[1], Act 4, Scene 2, published 1845, page 429:

     Great lords sometimes / For change leave calver'd salmon and eat sprats.

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered.
   • 1676, Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Angler:

     [A Grayling's] flesh will so easily calver that […] [it] is very good meat at all times.