corf

American  

[kawrf] / kɔrf /

noun

British.

plural

corves

1. Mining.

   1. a small wagon for carrying coal, ore, etc.

   2. a wicker basket formerly used for this purpose.

2. a basket, cage, or boxlike structure with perforations for keeping lobsters or fish alive in water.

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corf British  

/ kɔːf /

noun

1. a wagon or basket used formerly in mines

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Etymology

Origin of corf

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle Dutch (cognate with German Korb ) < Latin corbis basket; corbeil

Example Sentences

At Corf� a Turkish pacha came on board with his harem, to our lively interest.

From Project Gutenberg

Colleis Arglwydd call nim collai, Corf eurdorf, eurdal am rhoddai, Cof cadflawdd am cawdd, a’m carai, Car cerddawr, cerddau ai cyrchai, Gryd wascar, llachar, a’m llochai, Grym dilludd Dillus fab Erfai, Greddf Greidwyr, a Chywyr a Chai Glew ddefawd glyw oesdrawd aesdrai, Ystre hynt, wastad, westrei gwinfydig Gwyn ei fyd bieufei.

From Project Gutenberg

When he went into the printing-business and bent all day over the formes of type in the composing-room, hand-setting up the columns of the North London Half-penny Herald, to the tune of three-and-eightpence a day, the hollow chest grew hollower, and he developed a "corf."

From Project Gutenberg

After a preposition ending in a vowel, after en, in, changed to e, or after the conjunction ha, and, my is generally represented by ’m, which governs the first state:— dhô’m tâs, to my father; ha’m tâs, and my father. e’m corf, in my body.

From Project Gutenberg

Our skipper had a bad leg, so as I was going aboard for some corf mixture, he just arst me to get him a drop of something to rub in.

From Project Gutenberg