kerf
(now rare) The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice.
The groove or slit created by cutting or sawing something; an incision.
They pass through a cleft that has been made across a low range of hills, like a kerf in the top of a log, and enter into a lovely territory of subtly swelling emerald green fields strewn randomly with small white capsules that he takes to be sheep.
The portion or quantity (e.g. of wood, hay, turf, wool, etc.) removed or cut off in a given stroke.
The distance between diverging saw teeth.
The flattened, cut-off end of a branch or tree; a stump or sawn-off cross-section.
Sebastian, still not alone, is seated on the white-and-cinder-grey trunk of a felled tree. […] A Camberwell Beauty skims past and settles on the kerf, fanning its velvety wings.
To cut a piece of wood or other material with several kerfs to allow it to be bent.
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