calving

Meanings

1. 1
   verb To give birth to a calf
2. 2
   verb To assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf
3. 3
   verb To give birth to (a calf)
4. 4
   verb (especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) to shed a large piece, e.g. an iceberg or a smaller block of ice (coming off an iceberg)
5. 5
   verb (especially of an iceberg) to break off
6. 6
   verb (especially of an ice shelf, a glacier, an ice sheet, or even an iceberg) to shed (a large piece, e.g. an iceberg); to set loose (a mass of ice), e.g. a block of ice (coming off an iceberg)
7. 7
   noun The act of giving birth to a calf
8. 8
   noun The breaking away of a mass of ice from an iceberg, glacier etc.