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    Erf
    acronym
    electrorheological fluid: a man-made liquid that thickens or solidifies when an electric current passes through it and returns to a liquid when the current ceases
  • erf
    erf
    noun
    a plot of land, usually urban, marked off for building purposes

Erf

1 British  
/ ɜːf /

acronym

  1. electrorheological fluid: a man-made liquid that thickens or solidifies when an electric current passes through it and returns to a liquid when the current ceases

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

erf 2 British  
/ ɜːf /

noun

  1. a plot of land, usually urban, marked off for building purposes

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of erf

Afrikaans

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Erf, erf, n. a garden-plot in South Africa.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Used also as a comprehensive sign for all or any of the extant Anglo-Saxon glosses or glossaries: Cp, Ep, Erf, GPH, HGl, KGl, Ln, OEG, WW etc.

From A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by Hall, J. R. Clark (John R. Clark)

If these aren't effective or practical, then you might have to find the most compassionate and respectful way to ask him to grow the erf up.

From Washington Post Jun. 26, 2021

They have a total daily circulation erf 3,350,411, and a Sunday circulation of 4,084,394.

From Time Magazine Archive

She was the largest war galley in the royal fleet, four hundred oars, the only warship the boy king owned capable erf overmatching Fury.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

"So this is why Robb Stark sends you back to me, after so long? So you might win my consent to this plan erf his?"

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

They found some sails, some nails, buckets erf tar gone hard, and a mother cat with a litter of new-born kittens.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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