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kerf

[ kurf ]

noun

  1. a cut or incision made by a saw or the like in a piece of wood.
  2. Mining. a deep cut a few inches high, used to undermine a portion of a coal or mineral seam.
  3. the act of cutting or carving.


verb (used with object)

  1. to make a kerf or kerfs in (a piece of wood, a coal seam, etc.).

kerf

/ °ìÉœË´Ú /

noun

  1. the cut made by a saw, an axe, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of kerf1

before 1000; Middle English kerf, kirf, Old English cyrf a cutting (cognate with Old Frisian kerf ); akin to carve
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of kerf1

Old English cyrf a cutting; related to Old English ceorfan to carve
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Don’t forget the all-important drip kerf under the crown overhang!

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We learn the word for the space that the saw eats up in the wood — kerf — and how to operate circular saws, routers, drills and drivers.

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Crowns are supposed to overhang the chimney and have a drip kerf on the underside of the overhang.

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In the field the dead sedge was drifted nearly out of sight and the snow stood in razor kerfs atop the fencewires and the silence was breathless.

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I see new words that sound cool like dado and kerf and tenon and mortise.

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