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calf

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Source Word

calf

IPA(Pronunciation)

/kɑːf/

Noun

dated informal

Japanese Meaning

子牛（オス牛や雌牛の幼い牛） / 仔牛革（仔牛の皮を使用した、特に明るい色合いで製本に使われる高品質な革）

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We watched the calf nursing beside its mother in the meadow.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

私たちは牧草地で母牛のそばで授乳している子牛を見守った。

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Sense（1）

A young cow or bull.

Sense（2）

Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.

Sense（3）

A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals).

Sense（4）

A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.

Our swell ceases with this wind, and the floes seem disposed to come together again; but the days of winter have passed by, and the interposing calves prevent the apposition of the edges

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Sense（5）

A small island, near a larger island.

the Calf of Man

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Sense（6）

A cabless railroad engine.

Sense（7）

(informal, dated) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

some silly, doating, brainless calf

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calves

（ plural ）

calfs

（ nonstandard plural ）

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