veal

• veale, veel (obsolete)

From Middle English veel, from Anglo-Norman veel, from Latin vitellus, diminutive of vitulus (“calf”). Doublet of vitellus.

• IPA^(key): /viːl/

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• Rhymes: -iːl

veal (countable and uncountable, plural veals)

1. The flesh of a calf (i.e. a young bovine) used for food.

   Synonym: (nonstandard) calfflesh

2. (slang, vulgar) The female genitalia. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

veal (third-person singular simple present veals, present participle vealing, simple past and past participle vealed)

1. To raise a calf for meat production.
   • 1811, George B. Worgan, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Cornwall, Great Britain: Board of Agriculture, page 144:

     The division outside the vealing place is for a cow that has had or is near having calf.

   • 1852, Thomas Mayne Reid, The Desert Home:

     It was about the size of a vealed calf, but shorter in the legs, and much longer in the body.

• Leva, Vale, Vela, avel, eval, lave, leva, vale, vela

veal

1. adessive singular of viga