Definitions for kerfs

kerfs kerf

Spelling: [kurf]
IPA: /kɜrf/

Kerfs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in kerfs (efkrs).

Definitions for kerfs

noun

  1. a cut or incision made by a saw or the like in a piece of wood.
  2. Mining. a deep cut a few inches high, used to undermine a portion of a coal or mineral seam.
  3. the act of cutting or carving.

verb (used with object)

  1. to make a kerf or kerfs in (a piece of wood, a coal seam, etc.).

Origin of kerfs

before 1000; Middle English kerf, kirf, Old English cyrf a cutting (cognate with Old Frisian kerf); akin to carve

Examples for kerfs

The cut is made on the pulling stroke, and hence the kerf can be very narrow.

Cut your kerf on the side toward the landing place, let the notch go half-way or a trifle more through the trunk.

Little by little the axe bit through the tough wood, until the kerf was well past the heart of the tree.

The first chips that flew were ten inches long, but they quickly dwindled as the kerf sank in.

By letting the saw run in the kerf thus made, you can cut pieces off square.

Make the notch, or kerf, large enough to avoid pinching your axe in it.

The teeth should cut a kerf just wide enough to clear the blade.

When the kerf is well started, the whole weight of the saw may be applied.

When the first kerf is finished begin another one on the opposite side of the tree a little higher than the first one (Fig. 114).

Where the whole body of the tooth is bent, the saw will run smoothly and easily through the kerf and produce a smooth-cut surface.

Word Value for kerfs
Scrable

11

Words with friends

11

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