Definition of Kerfed

1. kerf [v] - See also: kerf

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kerfed

kerbsides
kerbstone
kerbstones
kercher
kerchered
kerchers
kerchief
kerchiefed
kerchiefs
kerchieves
kerching
kerchoo
kerchunk
kere
kerf
kerfed (current term)
kerfing
kerflewie
kerflewy
kerflooey
kerfluffle
kerfluffles
kerfs
kerfuffle
kerfuffles
kerion
keriorrhea
keris
kerite
kerites

Literary usage of Kerfed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General View of the Agriculture of the County of Worcester: With by William Pitt, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain), Francis Le Couteur (1810)
"The first year green crops, as above, are cultivated on the skirting of the ridges, and the hop-plants are three times kerfed, to mould and keep them clean, ..."

2. Estimating Frame and Brick Houses: Barns, Stables, Factories and Outbuildings by Fred T. Hodgson (1910)
"... from the solid to the proper curve, as they ought to be for this kind of finish, but if all the moldings are struck on the straight. and then kerfed, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"kerfed Beam. (See Kerf.) Laced Beam. More often Lattice Beam (which see below). where the local or structural conditions are such as to make the latter ..."

4. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"1. A buill-beam is one made of several parts scarfed or strapped together. In. A kerfed beam is one whose- under side has a number of ..."

5. Cyclopedia of Architecture, Carpentry, and Building: A General Reference by American Technical Society (1917)
"62 also shows the drum or shape around which strings may be bent, whether the strings are formed of veneers, staved, or kerfed. Another drum or shape is ..."

6. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Essex: With Observations on by Messrs. Griggs (Firm), Board of Agriculture (Great Britain), Great Britain (1794)
"During the first year, the grounds are ploughed, or hoed, provincially kerfed, three times. They produce no hops; but a good crop of pease, beans, cabbage, ..."

7. Framing: A Practical Manual of Approved Up-to-date Methods of House Framing by William A. Radford (1917)
"... as from A to D in the diagram; and D to B will be the required length of the string. The back of the string can then be kerfed the same as Fig. 58. ..."

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