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Calf


Calf


Calf (pl.: calves) most often refers to:

  • Calf (animal), the young of domestic cattle.
  • Calf (leg), in humans (and other primates), the back portion of the lower leg

Calf or calves may also refer to:

Biology and animal byproducts

  • Veal, meat from calves
  • Calfskin, leather
  • Vellum, calf hide processed as a writing material
  • Calf-binding, a leather book binding

Geography

  • The Calf, a peak in the Yorkshire Dales, UK
  • Calf, an island off Newfoundland; see Bull, Cow and Calf
  • Calf, the product of Ice calving
  • Calves, Portugal, a hamlet in Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal

People

  • Anthony Calf

Other

  • CALF, the Common Affordable Lightweight Fighter project resulting in the Boeing X-32
  • Calf, short for calfdozer, a type of small bulldozer
  • Calf, part of an early type of internal combustion engine seen in the Ascot (1904 automobile)

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Calf
  • List of animal names, for animals whose young are called "calves"
  • Crus, the entire lower leg
  • Calve (disambiguation)
  • Calving (disambiguation)
  • Calf Island (disambiguation)
  • Golden calf, idol described in the Bible
  • Cow-calf, a set of switcher-type locomotives
  • Calf, a small island near a larger one; see Category:Calves (islands)
  • Ilkley Moor, site of Cow and Calf Rocks



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