Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
  • noun Same as corb
  • noun In mining, same as corf. Also spelled cawf.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.

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  • noun A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
  • noun Eye dialect spelling of calf.

Etymologies

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Originally a misspelling of corf ("basket"), of which cauf remains a homophone.

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Phonetic respelling.

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