calver UK /ˈkɑːvə/US /ˈkævɚ/verb 2adjective 1noun 1forms 3 verb2 •(no longer used) To cut into slices and pickle.My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […] — 1610 •(no longer used) To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered.[A Grayling's] flesh will so easily calver that […][it] is very good meat at all times. — 1676 adjective1 •Of salmon: freshly caught. noun1 •A cow that produces young. formscalvered · calvering · calvers