corf
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- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 4
/kɔːf/
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/kɔːf/ · /kɔɹf/
Definition of corf
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A large basket, especially as used for coal.
“Why, I am simple as a pony, Sir […]?– born in a Drift, a Corf for my cradle, and nought but the Back-shift for Schoolmasters there […]?”
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noun
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A large basket, especially as used for coal.
“Why, I am simple as a pony, Sir […]?– born in a Drift, a Corf for my cradle, and nought but the Back-shift for Schoolmasters there […]?”
- A container (basket, wooden box with holes etc.) used to store live fish underwater.
- A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.
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Etymology
From Middle English corf, borrowed from Middle Low German korf or Middle Dutch korf, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *korb.
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