[f. CALVE v. + -ER1.] A cow that calves, or bears young.
1785. Worfat, Bran New Wark, 322 (E. D. S.). He that sell’d me tother day a barren cow and a calf, for a calver.
1808. T. C. Curwen, Hints on Feeding Stock, 177. The milk of the sixth, a winter calver, was reserved for the family.
1884. York Herald, 26 April, 6/4. Good English calvers made from £18 to £22 each, half-bred calvers from £14 to £16 each.
