- plural of corf.
corves
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The report was louder that artillery, and the machinery at the mouth of the pit was blown down, and scattered about to some distance, with corves &c., from the bottom of the shaft.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2012
Then he should have to fill corves with coal, and push them along the tramways for some years more till he got to be a hewer like his father.
From Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading by Kingston, William Henry Giles
The sleepers on which the rails for the corves, or little waggons, were laid, were very slippery.
From Facing Death The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
When the train of rolleys reaches the shaft, the full corves are hoisted up, and empty ones let down, which are placed on the rolleys, and carried back for the hewers to fill.
From Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading by Kingston, William Henry Giles
On the full corves being replaced by empty ones, it was then the duty of the brakesman to reverse the engine, and send the corves down the pit to be filled again.
From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Smiles, Samuel
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