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carf

I. carf Obs. exc. dial.
    In 1 cyrf, 4 kyrf, kerfe, 4–7 carfe, 5 carffe.
    [OE. had cyrf fem. repr. OTeut. kurbjô- from ablaut stem of carve v. Cf. MHG. kerbe, MLG. and MDu. kerve, Du. kerf fem. Thence ME. kyrf, kerfe; the later form may be modified after the vb., in OE. ceorfan; cf. LG. karf.]
    1. Cutting, a cut, incision; a wound; a fissure.

a 1000 Rule St. Benet 28 (Bosw.) Cyrf abscissio. c 1340 Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 372 Kepe þe cosyn..þat þou on kyrf sette. 1393 Gower Conf. II. 152 With sondry kerfe and portreture. ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 2714 And whene þe carffes ware clene, þat clede them aȝayne. 1559 Morwyng Evonym. 64 A thin borde with a slitt or carfe in the midst cut out over⁓thwarth. 1565 Golding Ovid's Met. viii. (1593) 205 The bloud came spinning from the carfe. 1639 MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp. Canterb., For sawinge of a carfe in a peice of timber, ijd. 1847–78 Halliwell, Carf, the breadth of one cutting in a rick of hay. Kent. 1879 Jamieson, Carf, a cut in timber, for admitting another piece. Dumfr.

    2. ? The cut part at the end of a piece of wood.

1502 Arnolde Chron. 97 I iij fote of assise be syde the carf. 1542–3 Act 34–5 Hen. VIII, iii, Euerie shyde of tal⁓wood to conteyne in length .iiii. foote of assise at least, besyde the carfe. 1799 S. Freeman Town Off. 151 All cord wood for sale shall be four feet long, including half of the carf.

II. carf
    obs. pa. tense of carve v.

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