Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
corf .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
corf .
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- noun Alternative form of
corf .
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Examples
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Two hundred years ago an annual rental of £5 was substituted for the heather "corve"; the clansmen's service continuing and being rendered up till the '45.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869
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They have only two tools -- a short pick, and a round-bladed spade; with a big basket, or "corve," into which they put the coal, and a gauze-wire lantern.
Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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On catching sight of the chain attached to the ascending corve-cage, the brakesman, by pressing his foot upon a foot-step near him, was enabled, with great precision, to stop the revolutions of the wheel, and arrest the ascent of the corves at the pit mouth, when they were forthwith landed on the “settle board.”
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858
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Stephenson ordered the engineman to lower him down the shaft in the corve.
Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858
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On to this the full corve was lifted and the empty one left in its place.
The Mines and its Wonders William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The corve descended with its adventurous crew down the shaft.
The Mines and its Wonders William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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At last the cry arose that the corve was ascending.
The Mines and its Wonders William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Instead of the old corve or basket, an iron safety-cage had been introduced, sliding up and down on steel bars, resembling indeed a perpendicular rail-road.
The Mines and its Wonders William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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It was about three yards square, and was to be about four feet six inches back under the bed of coal, he began by hewing away about two feet six inches from the ground and working upwards, cutting out the coal with his pick, shovelling it into a large corve or basket which stood at hand ready for the reception of the lumps.
The Mines and its Wonders William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Unlike the other women, on hearing this she uttered no cry, but stood speechless and trembling as near as she could venture to the pit's mouth, where she waited, with intense anxiety, the return of the corve to the surface.
The Mines and its Wonders William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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