calver

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Fresh; newly caught, as fish: applied particularly to fish, and especially to salmon, dressed as soon as caught. The term was also applied to fish dressed in a particular way, as with oil, vinegar, and spices. See calver, v.
2. n. The flaky or fat flesh of calver fish.
3. In cookery, to prepare (fish) in a certain way, apparently by a kind of pickling and spicing.
4. To crimp (fish).

Wiktionary

1. n. A cow that produces young.
2. v. obsolete, transitive To cut into slices and pickle.
3. v. obsolete, intransitive To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. obsolete To cut in slices and pickle, as salmon.
2. v. To crimp.
3. v. To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered.