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Definition of Calder
1. Noun. United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calder
Literary usage of Calder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"TFH calder, SIB ROBERT (1745-1818), admiral, directly descended from the calders
of Muirtown in Morayshire, was the fourth son of Sir James calder, hart., ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"From Hawick, the second time, to what place did you go ? calder. ... calder.
Five or six hundred of the Highland foot went from us. Att. Gen. ..."
3. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1900)
"Between the border town of Todmorden and Hebden Bridge the banks of the calder
rise to considerable heights, and the scenery beyond them is wild in the ..."
4. Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, Throughout by Joseph Priestley (1831)
"THE River calder rises in the mountainous district north of the town of Todmorden,
running along a most romantic and deep valley, called The Vale of ..."
5. Highways and Byways in the Lake District by Arthur Granville Bradley, Joseph Pennell (1903)
"us into calder bridge, where an imposing gateway opens up an imposing avenue.
... A charming village is this of calder, expanding outwards by degrees in two ..."
6. The Scottish Nation: Or, The Surnames, Families, Literature, Honours, and by William Anderson (1877)
"calder, an ancient surname assumed from the lands of calder, now Cawdor, in
Nairnshire, but derived originally from the French name of de ..."
7. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1882)
"calder, a hamlet and a loch of NW Caithness. The hamlet, to the E of the lake,
... calder, a stream of Kingussie parish, E Inverness-shire, formed by three ..."
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