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Saw's incision
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kerf
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Kerf may refer to: Kerf , the width of a saw cut Kerf, molten metal and metal oxide blown out when metal is cut by an oxy-gas torch: see Oxy-fuel welding and cutting Kerf , a poetry collection by Peter Sanger The Kerf , a poetry publication of the College ...
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kerf \Kerf\, n. [AS. cyrf a cutting off, fr. ceorfan to cut, carve. See Carve .] A notch, channel, or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing.
Usage examples of kerf.
If the chip is short, the opening of the kerf will be narrow and your hatchet will become wedged, obliging you to double your labor by enlarging the kerf.
Ashman, who had already put on protective clothing, goggles and breathing apparatus, lit the blowlamp and started the first kerf between the holes.
A Camberwell Beauty skims past and settles on the kerf, fanning its velvety wings.
Rolf tightened his gloved, two-fisted grip on the helper handle of the Homelite Super 1130G gear drive chain saw while Magnus positioned the five-foot blade in the kerf and pulled the cord.
The sides of the kerfed boxes were made from a single plank in which grooves, or kerfs, were cut not quite all the way through.
In the field the dead sedge was drifted nearly out of sight and the snow stood in razor kerfs atop the fencewires and the silence was breathless.
I was the blue-green algae floating on the currents, soaking up sunlight, and I was a diatom and an arrowworm and a kerfer slicing open the soft tissues of a jellyfish.
His nose told him the kerfed wooden cooking box near the fire had roots and grain simmering in it, but no meat.
He cemented a smaller, sharp-edged diamond to the end of a cleaving stick and began the laborious, time-honored process of kerfing.