Crossword clues for kerf
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.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The groove or slit created by cutting a workpiece; an incision. 2 The width of the groove made while cutting. 3 Distance between diverge saw teeth vb. To cut a piece of wood or other material with several '''kerfs''' to allow it to be bent.
Wikipedia
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 of the Redwoods, Del Norte Center for Writing in Crescent City, California
- Kerala E.N.T. Research Foundation (KERF), a hospital at Kollam in Kerala, India
Kerf is an outdoor series of two pigmented cast concrete sculptures by Thomas Sayre, installed at the MAX Orange Line's Southeast Tacoma/Johnson Creek MAX Station in the southeast Portland, Oregon portion of the Ardenwald-Johnson Creek neighborhood, which straddles the border between Portland (and Multnomah County) and Milwaukie, Oregon (and Clackamas County).
According to TriMet, the pieces were "earth-cast" on site and represent "the influence of wheels on the area, from a 19th-century sawmill on Johnson Creek to the wheels of the MAX train".
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.