calving

Pronunciation: /ˈkævɪŋ/

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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Ah—is it that the farmer don’t want my help for the calving? — Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman, Thomas Hardy
Many of the reindeer had already dropped their horns, and the calving season had begun. — The Land of the Long Night, Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu
By a careful process of autumn calving, the Finnish dairymen manage to have most milk in the winter, when they make butter, which they send seventy miles by sledge to the nearest railway train, to be borne hence to Hangö, the only port in Finland that is open during the winter months. — Through Finland in Carts, Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

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