kerf
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English[edit]

Collecting resin: a pot pitched between a nail and a kerf in a tree.
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English kerf, kirf, kyrf, from Old English cyrf (“an act of cutting, a cutting off; a cutting instrument”), from Proto-Germanic *kurbiz (“a cut; notch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”).
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Noun[edit]
kerf (plural kerfs)
- The groove or slit created by cutting a workpiece; an incision.
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1999, Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon:
- 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.
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- The width of the groove made while cutting with a saw or laser.
- 1991, Popular Mechanics, January issue, page 63, "Thin-kerf blades", by Rosario Capotostro
- Sawing with a thin-kerf blade produces a kerf that's 1/2 to 1/3 the size of a standard blade kerf.
- 1991, Popular Mechanics, January issue, page 63, "Thin-kerf blades", by Rosario Capotostro
- The distance between diverging saw teeth.
- The portion of hay, turf, wool, etc. yielded by a single cut or shearing stroke.
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Translations[edit]
the groove or slit cut in the workpiece
distance between diverging saw teeth
Verb[edit]
kerf (third-person singular simple present kerfs, present participle kerfing, simple past and past participle kerfed)
- To cut a piece of wood or other material with several kerfs to allow it to be bent.
References[edit]
- kerf in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911 (Supplement)
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