- calve⇄calve, verb, calved,calving.
- calve⇄v.i. 1. to give birth to a calf.
2. (of a glacier or iceberg) to detach and throw off a mass of ice. - calve⇄v.t. 1. to bring forth (a calf).
2. to detach and throw off (a mass of ice).
Ex. Icebergs calved from the west Greenland glaciers one summer usually spend their first winter in the vicinity of Melville Bay (Science News Letter).