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- noun Plural form of
kerf .
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Examples
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In the field the dead sedge was drifted nearly out of sight and the snow stood in razor kerfs atop the fencewires and the silence was breathless.
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Some is less successful: the occasional odd verb, such as “… glassed the valley below them with the binoculars” or bizarre terms like “the snow lay in skifts all through the woods” and “the snow stood in razor kerfs atop the fencewires”.
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In the field the dead sedge was drifted nearly out of sight and the snow stood in razor kerfs atop the fencewires and the silence was breathless.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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This subject should be illustrated by presenting workpieces which were cut by sawing or which show kerfs.
3. Recommendations for practical vocational training in the working technique of Manual Sawing Frank Wenghfer 1990
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This subject should be illustrated by presenting workpieces which were cut by sawing or which show kerfs.
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Wedges are driven into saw kerfs in the tenon before inserting into the mortise; then when it is driven home the wedges spread out the tenon and make it fill out the mortise.
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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A wedged mortise-and-tenon joint_, Fig. 266, may also be made by driving the wedges into saw kerfs in the tenon instead of along its sides as in No. 34.
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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A piece of thin saw-cut veneer is afterwards glued into the saw kerfs, and when dry the face is levelled off flush.
Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. William Fairham
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As the apparatus with but a single endless saw makes but two kerfs at once, Mr. Auguste has devised an arrangement by means of which several blades may be used, and the work thus be expedited.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 620, November 19,1887 Various
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A wedged_ ... by driving the wedges into saw kerfs in the tenon instead of along its sides as in
Handwork in Wood William Noyes
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