calver

A cow that produces young.

Of salmon: freshly caught.

calver salmon

To cut into slices and pickle.

My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calvered salmons, / Knots, godwits, lampreys: I myself will have / The beards of barbels, served instead of salads […]

Great lords sometimes / For change leave calver'd salmon and eat sprats.

To bear, or be susceptible of, being calvered.

[A Grayling's] flesh will so easily calver that […][it] is very good meat at all times.