corf

English

Etymology

From Middle English corf, borrowed from Middle Low German korf or Middle Dutch korf, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *korb.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɔːf/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɔɹf/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)f
• Hyphenation: corf

Noun

corf (plural corves or corfs)

1. (mining) A large basket, especially as used for coal.
   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     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 […] ?

2. (fishing) A container (basket, wooden box with holes etc.) used to store live fish underwater.
3. (mining) A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.

Related terms

• korfball

Translations

large basket, especially as used for coal

• Finnish: hiilikori
• Irish: féan guail m
• Maori: pūkirikiri (for carrying stone, gravel, sand, earth)

container used to store live fish underwater

• Bulgarian: винтер m (vinter)
• Danish: hyttefad n, dam (da) c
• Finnish: sumppu (fi)
• German: Fischkasten m
• Maori: whakarino, korotete
• Polish: sadz (pl) m
• Portuguese: cofo (pt) m, samburá (pt) m (Brazil)
• Swedish: sump (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

Old French

Alternative forms

• corb, corp, crop

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *corbus < Classical Latin corvus.

Noun

corf oblique singular, m (oblique plural cors, nominative singular cors, nominative plural corf)

1. crow (bird)

Related terms

• corbel