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kerf

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
kerf /kəːf/

▶noun

1 a slit made by cutting with a saw.

2 the cut end of a felled tree.

– derivatives
kerfed adjective.

– origin OE cyrf ‘cutting, a cut’, of W. Gmc origin; rel. to carve.

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