calf
/kæf/ sustantivo B1En español: becerro, becerra, ternero, ternera
- A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.
- Leather made of the skin of domestic calves; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.
- The young of various animals, especially elephant, giraffe, reindeer, seal, or whale (also indiscriminately used of other animals).
- A mass of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.
- A small island, near a larger island.
- A cabless railroad engine.
- An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.
Plural calves
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## The Bull and the Calf
A young Calf came up, and offered to go before and show him the way by which he could manage to pass.
When he thought of that rapt light being quenched in her eyes he had an uncomfortable feeling that he was going to assist at murdering something--much the same feeling that came over him when he had to kill a lamb or calf or any other innocent little creature.
I whisked round and had just time to catch a glimpse of something which I took to be a large black calf passing at the head of the drive.
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