Noun: kerf
Sample Sentences
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They pass through a cleft that has been made across a low range of hills, like a kerf in the top of a log, and enter into a lovely territory of subtly swelling emerald green fields strewn randomly with small white capsules that he takes to be sheep. [1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon:]
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1991, Popular Mechanics, January issue, page 63, "Thin-kerf blades", by Rosario Capotostro
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Sawing with a thin-kerf blade produces a kerf that's 1/2 to 1/3 the size of a standard blade kerf.
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1991, Popular Mechanics, January issue, page 63, "Thin-kerf blades", by Rosario Capotostro
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Sawing with a thin-kerf blade produces a kerf that's 1/2 to 1/3 the size of a standard blade kerf.
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Sebastian, still not alone, is seated on the white-and-cinder-grey trunk of a felled tree. […] A Camberwell Beauty skims past and settles on the kerf, fanning its velvety wings. [1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 115:]
Nouns inflected like kerf
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English kerf, kirf, kyrf, from Old English cyrf (“an act of cutting, a cutting off; a cutting instrument”), from Proto-West Germanic *kurbi, from Proto-Germanic *kurbiz (“a cut; notch; clipping”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Käärf, West Frisian kerf, Swedish korv. Related also to Dutch kerf, German Low German Karve, Karv, German Kerbe. See: Middle English Nouns '
kerf', Old English Nouns '
cyrf', Swedish Nouns '
korv', Dutch Nouns '
kerf', German Nouns '
Kerbe'.
Verbs referencing "kerf"
Swedish Nouns
korv, German Nouns
Kerbe.