Definition of "calver"

calver¹

/ˈkɑːvə/

noun
plural calvers
1. A cow that produces young.

calver²

adjective
1. Of salmon: freshly caught.
verb
third-person singular simple present calvers, present participle calvering, simple past and past participle calvered
1. (obsolete, transitive) To cut into slices and pickle.
  Quotations
  My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]
  1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, (please specify the GB page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
  Great lords sometimes / For change leave calver'd salmon and eat sprats.
  1633, Philip Massinger, “The Guardian”, in William Gifford, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger‎, published 1845, act 4, scene 2, page 429
2. (obsolete, intransitive) To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered.
  Quotations
  [A Grayling's] flesh will so easily calver that […] [it] is very good meat at all times.
  1676, Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, The Compleat Angler