| Summary: | calve v _Calf_, in the Arctic regions, a mass of floe ice breaking from under a floe, which when disengaged rises with violence to the surface of the water; it differs from a tongue, which is the same body kept fixed beneath the main floe. The iceberg is formed by the repeated freezing of thawed snow running down over the slopes, until at length the wave from beneath and weight above causes it to break off and fall into the sea, or,as termed in Greenland, to calve. Thus, berg, is fresh-water ice, the work of years. The floe is salt water frozewn suddenly each winter, and dissolving in the summer. PRINTED ITEM W. J. KIRWIN AUG 1971 JH AUG 1971 AUG 1971 Not used Not used Withdrawn Checked by Jordyn Hughes on Tue 12 Jul 2016
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