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発音

• IPA: /kɜː(ɹ)f/
• 韻: -ɜː(ɹ)f

名詞

kerf (plural kerfs)

1. (now rare) The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice.
2. The groove or slit created by cutting or sawing something; an incision.
   • 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.

3. The portion or quantity (e.g. of wood, hay, turf, wool, etc.) removed or cut off in a given stroke.
   • 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.

4. The distance between diverging saw teeth.
   • 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.

5. The flattened, cut-off end of a branch or tree; a stump or sawn-off cross-section.
   • 1941, Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Penguin 1971 edition, page 115:

     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.

関連する語

• carve
• swarf

派生語

• kerf allowance
• kerf graft

動詞

kerf (third-person singular simple present kerfs, present participle kerfing, simple past and past participle kerfed)

1. To cut a piece of wood or other material with several kerfs to allow it to be bent.

参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “kerf”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. (Supplement)

アナグラム

• f**ker, ferk

語源

From 古期英語 cyrf, from Proto-West Germanic *kurbi, from Proto-Germanic *kurbiz.

The predominance of forms in -e- is probably due to the influence of kerven.

発音

• IPA: /kɛrf/, /kirf/

名詞

kerf (plural kerves)

1. The act of cutting or carving; a stroke or slice.
2. (rare) An incision; the result of cutting.
3. (rare) The edge of a blade.

派生した語

• English: kerf, carf
• Scots: kerf, carf

参照

• “kirf, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.