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单词 carf
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carfn.

Forms: In Old English cyrf, Middle English kyrf, kerfe, Middle English–1600s carfe, Middle English carffe.
Etymology: Old English had cyrf feminine representing Old Germanic kurbjô- from ablaut stem of carve v. Compare Middle High German kerbe, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch kerve, Dutch kerf feminine. Thence Middle English kyrf, kerfe; the later form may be modified after the verb, in Old English ceorfan; compare Low German karf.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. Cutting, a cut, incision; a wound; a fissure.
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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.
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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).
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