How to pronounce calve

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What calve means

verb

To break off huge chunks of ice, as a glacier does

In a sentence: We watched the glacier calve, and a block of ice as big as a house splashed into the bay.

Where it comes from: It comes from an Old English word meaning to give birth to a calf. Later, people used it for big pieces of ice splitting away from a glacier.

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