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Calver   Listen
verb
Calver  v. i.  
1.
To cut in slices and pickle, as salmon. (Obs.) "For a change, leave calvered salmon and eat sprats."
2.
To crimp; as, calvered salmon.





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"Calver" Quotes from Famous Books



... plates in the book are from drawings made at the telescope (a 12-inch Calver reflector) by the Rev. T. E. R. Phillips. The opposition of 1909 was not favourable for the observation of Martian details from England; for although the planet was near to us, it was too low down in the sky; and many of the nights were ...
— To Mars via The Moon - An Astronomical Story • Mark Wicks


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