calver (kalver)

t. [Orig. only in p. a. calvered, for calver: see calver, a.] 1t. In cook ery, to prepare (fish) in a certain way, apparently by a kind of pickling and spicing. My foot-boy shall eat pheasants, calver'd salmons, knots, godwits, lampreys. B. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. L. Great lords sometimes For change leave calver'd salmon, and eat sprats. Mas singer, The Guardian, iv. 2. 2. To crimp (fish). Nares .