Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A truck, tub, or basket used in a mine.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small mine-car of wood or iron.
- noun In coal-mining, a box in which coals are conveyed from the working place to the shaft. This was formerly done in wicker baskets, whence the name. Also
cauf . - noun A local English measure of coal. In Durham it is 4 bushels, or 3¼ hundredweight; in Derbyshire, 2¼ level bushels, or 2 hundredweight.
- noun Also
corve .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A basket.
- noun A large basket used in carrying or hoisting coal or ore.
- noun A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mining A large
basket , especially as used forcoal . - noun A basket used to contain live
fish underwater . - noun mining A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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[Footnote 1: A corf is a large basket used for carrying coals or other minerals in a mine.]
Miscellanea Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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"Or perhaps a half-corf, such as this wee one is carrying."
A Place Called Freedom Follett, Ken 1995
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She was barefoot and carried on her back a corf half full of coal.
A Place Called Freedom Follett, Ken 1995
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The miner stopped the girl and one of his women lifted the corf.
A Place Called Freedom Follett, Ken 1995
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Jen lifted Wullie and slung him over her shoulder: his weight was nothing to a woman who could carry a full corf of coal up these stairs twenty times in a fifteen-hour shift.
A Place Called Freedom Follett, Ken 1995
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The miner, seemingly expecting this, caught her, and she felt the weight lifted from her back as the woman removed the corf.
A Place Called Freedom Follett, Ken 1995
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"You weigh a good deal less than a corf full of coal," he said with a smile.
A Place Called Freedom Follett, Ken 1995
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Although her child was only a week or so old, the poor woman was carrying a full corf.
A Place Called Freedom Follett, Ken 1995
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All they could suggest was corf sone which my mother took in the form of tablets and injections in her neck.
WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA CHANG, JUNG 1991
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"Yes, 'e' as got a corf," said Emily, watching Maggie with all her eyes.
The Captives Hugh Walpole 1912
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