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- noun Plural form of
calver .
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Examples
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Starting off with a big boaboa and three — legged calvers and ivargraine jadesses with a message in their mouths.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Guid kens how long it took him, but he sowed his hill grasses with his corn, and the seeds came, as we say, and he cut it and threshed it with the flails; and after that he had hay-stacks in his yard, and his beasts were well done by, so that at the fair he got great prices both for stots and back-calvers.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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But Mrs. Wilson got four cows, back-calvers who would be milking strong in December, and supplied milk to all the folk about the Cross.
The House with the Green Shutters George Douglas Brown 1885
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The dairy at MOUNT PLEASANT consisted of twenty cows -- almost all spring calvers, and of the Ayrshire breed -- so you may guess what cream!
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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Milkers: 1st calvers to £1960; 3rd calvers to £1700.
WalesOnline - Home 2010
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Milkers: 1st calvers to £1960; 3rd calvers to £1700.
WalesOnline - Home 2010
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The spin-off benefits include having a pen in the field to segregate problem calvers and reluctant mothers.
FWi - All News 2010
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Milkers: 1st calvers to £1960; 3rd calvers to £1700.
WalesOnline - Home 2010
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Milkers: 1st calvers to £1960; 3rd calvers to £1700.
WalesOnline - Home 2010
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Milkers: 1st calvers to £1960; 3rd calvers to £1700.
WalesOnline - Home 2010
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