intransitive verb. To give birth to a calf.

intransitive verb. To break at an edge, so that a portion separates. Used of a glacier or iceberg.

intransitive verb. To give birth to (a calf).

intransitive verb. To set loose (a mass of ice). Used of a glacier or iceberg.

To bring forth a calf or calves: sometimes used contemptuously of human beings, and by Milton of the earth at the creation of cattle, etc.

To become separated from or lose a portion of itself: said of a glacier when icebergs are broken off from it.

To become detached and fall inward, as earth or rock from the walls of a cutting: with in. Now cave in.

To give birth to, as a cow to a calf; bring forth.

intransitive verb. To bring forth a calf.

intransitive verb. To bring forth young; to produce offspring.

intransitive verb. To throw off fragments which become icebergs; -- said of a glacier.

verb. To give birth to a calf.

verb. To assist the giving of birth of a calf.

verb. To break off or shed a large piece.

verb. birth

verb. release ice

"As Brinkley reminds us early on, Alaska is a land of wonderful verbiage - a place where glaciers "calve" shed hunks of ice, where the countryside is "the bush," where you can visit Misty Fiords and Gates of the Arctic, the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and the Island of the Standing Stone."

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