Definition of "calving" [calving]

• Present participle of calve. (verb)
• The act of giving birth to a calf (noun)
• The breaking away of a mass of ice from an iceberg, glacier etc. (noun)

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• "The first milk after calving is called biestings, and is so very different in quality from the other milk, that it should not be mixed with it."
• "The first milk drawn from a cow after calving, which is specially rich."
• "Some think it is intimated (Ps.xxix. 9) that God by thunder helps the hinds in calving."