calf

n 1: young of domestic cattle

2: the muscular back part of the shank [syn: {sura}]

3: fine leather from the skin of a calf [syn: {calfskin}]

4: young of various large placental mammals e.g. whale or

giraffe or elephant or buffalo

CRLF

/ker'l▫f/, sometimes /kru'l▫f/ or /C-R-L-F/ A

{carriage return} (CR, {ASCII} 13) followed by a {line feed}

(LF, {ASCII} 10). Under {Unix} influence this usage has

become less common because Unix uses just line feed as its

line terminator.

See {newline}, {terpri}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1995-03-27)