calved

• I don't know if this will be allowed but thought I'd let you wide-calved woman know that they are available in wide-calf, but just not here. —  Zappos.com: new styles
• Once her cow has calved, Yulkuncha will return one calf to a Christian Aid partner, who can then loan it to another family. —  Latest News from Ekklesia
• I saw her two days after she had calved, at which time she was ruminating, and did not manifest any unusual symptoms of exhaustion. —  Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
• Mr. Harley being the head tragedian of the same strolling company--a large-calved, leather-lunged player, doubtless, who had awed provincial groundlings for many a long year. —  Art in England Notes and Studies
• Cows "calved," and sheep "lambed," and wool in abundance was to be had The enterprising Puritan woman pulled the long-fibered straggling lock of wool, sorted out and rejected from the uniform fleeces, carded it with her little hand cards into yard-long finger-sized rolls, and twisted it upon her large wheel spindle, producing much such thread as an Italian peasant woman spins upon her distaff to-day as she walks upon the shore at Bai If the pioneer was a natural copyist, she doubled and twisted it, to make it in the exact fashion of the English crewel; if adventurous and independent, she worked it single threaded. —  The Development of Embroidery in America

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