sea calf

noun

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Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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Ipsis (says Pliny, speaking of the sea-calf) in somne mugitus, unde nomen vituli.

He was so terrified at thunder and lightning that he always carried with him the skin of a sea-calf as an antidote.

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.

The larger seal, or sea-calf, which seeks the most solitary recesses for its abode.

The sole is covered with a sea-calf's skin, with the hair outside; this precaution hinders retrograde movements.

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