[
UK
/kˈɑːf/
]
[ US /ˈkæf/ ]
[ US /ˈkæf/ ]
NOUN
- young of domestic cattle
- fine leather from the skin of a calf
- the muscular back part of the shank
- 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