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calf

[ UK /kˈɑːf/ ]
[ US /ˈkæf/ ]
NOUN
  1. young of domestic cattle
  2. fine leather from the skin of a calf
  3. the muscular back part of the shank
  4. young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or giraffe or elephant or buffalo

How To Use calf In A Sentence

  • The League Against Cruel Sports issued a statement Wednesday calling on Ottawa to "take steps to end the immense cruelty to animals in events such as calf-roping, which is practised at rodeos including the Calgary Stampede. CTV BritishColumbiaHome
  • The whale calf is thought to have become separated from its mother in the lower Thames, where the sighting of another, larger bottlenose whale was reported.
  • The calf weighed a healthy 30 pounds and was 3 feet long.
  • While the introduction of EU compensatory payments will offset the price drop, a decline in calf prices combined with cost increases will result in continuing pressure on margins in dairy farming.
  • As it is sometimes difficult to rear young calves it is a good thing to keep them clean and dry., whitewashing the calf hulls two or three times during the winter.
  • The shirt is complemented by anthracite grey shorts, and white socks with redcurrant pinstripes and an anthracite band with Arsenal printed on the calf. Archive 2009-09-01
  • A calf that spends the early hours of life licking a dirty udder and hind legs of a cow trying to find a teat is more likely to succumb to disease than a calf in a clean environment that got an early feed of quality colostrum.
  • Calf rennet is still used by specialty cheese manufacturers.
  • The room smelled of new calfskin luggage and nail-lacquer remover.
  • The writers of the Bible used the word calf to express their contempt for the object the Israelites worshiped. Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible
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