English Dictionary

calf

/kɑːf/

noun

A young cow or bull. / Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.

The farmer raised a calf on his farm.

意味（1）

A young cow or bull.

意味（2）

Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding.

意味（3）

A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals).

意味（4）

A chunk of ice broken from a larger glacier, ice shelf, or iceberg.

Our swell ceases with this wind, and the floes seem disposed to come together again; but the days of winter have passed by, and the interposing calves prevent the apposition of the edges

意味（5）

A small island, near a larger island.

the Calf of Man

意味（6）

A cabless railroad engine.

意味（7）

(informal, dated) An awkward or silly boy or young man; any silly person; a dolt.

some silly, doating, brainless calf