sea calf

Origin of sea calf

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Here, you son of a sea-calf, take this down to the waterside for me!

Romantic Spain |John Augustus O'Shea
He was so terrified at thunder and lightning that he always carried with him the skin of a sea-calf as an antidote.

The Catholic World; Vol. IV.; October, 1866, to March, 1867. |E. Rameur
The sole is covered with a sea-calf's skin, with the hair outside; this precaution hinders retrograde movements.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV |Various
Ipsis (says Pliny, speaking of the sea-calf) in somne mugitus, unde nomen vituli.

Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10) |Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

That devil of a sea-calf is the cause of all this storm, and is the only man who doth not lend a helping hand.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. |Francois Rabelais