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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



... the proportion of about sixteen to nine. Resilvering, too, involves much less risk and trouble than repolishing a speculum. The first use of this plan on a large scale was in an instrument of thirty-six inches aperture, finished by Calver for Dr. Common in 1879. To its excellent qualities turned to account with rare skill, his triumphs in celestial photography are mainly due. A more daring experiment was the construction and mounting, by Dr. Common himself, of a 5-foot reflector. But the first glass disc ordered from France for ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke


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