单词 | carf |
释义 | † carfn. Obsolete exc. dialect. 1. Cutting, a cut, incision; a wound; a fissure. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [noun] > wound > cut carfa1000 seamc1400 slapc1480 gap?a1500 gash1528 cut1530 scarification?1541 chopping1558 slash1580 slaughter1592 snip1600 hacka1610 sluice1648 a1000 Rule St. Benet 28 (Bosw.) Cyrf abscissio. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 152 With sondry kerfe and portreture. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 2714 And whene þe carffes ware clene, þat clede them aȝayne. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 372 Kepe þe, cosyn..þat þou on kyrf sette. 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 64 A thin borde with a slitt or carfe in the midst cut out over~thwarth. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) viii. f. 108 The blood came spinning from the carf. 1639 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) For sawinge of a carfe in a peice of timber, ijd. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Carf, the breadth of one cutting in a rick of hay. Kent. 1879 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Carf, a cut in timber, for admitting another piece. Dumfr. 1897 W. D. Howells Landlord Lion's Head vii He lifted his axe, and struck it into the carf on the tree. 2. ? The cut part at the end of a piece of wood. ΚΠ c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxiiijv/2 iiij fote of assise be syde the carf. 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 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 Officer (ed. 4) 151 All cord wood for sale shall be four feet long, including half of the carf. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.a1000 |
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