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noun

Scarf n. A cormorant. (Scot.)

Scarf n. (pl. scarfs, rarely scarves) An article of dress of a light and decorative character, worn loosely over the shoulders or about the neck or the waist; a light shawl or handkerchief for the neck; also, a cravat; a neckcloth. "Put on your hood and scarf." "With care about the banners, scarves, and staves."

Scarf n.

In a piece which is to be united to another by a scarf joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece.

A scarf joint.

Scarf joint

(a)

A joint made by overlapping and bolting or locking together the ends of two pieces of timber that are halved, notched, or cut away so that they will fit each other and form a lengthened beam of the same size at the junction as elsewhere.

(b)

A joint formed by welding, riveting, or brazing together the overlapping scarfed ends, or edges, of metal rods, sheets, etc.

Scarf weld. See under Weld.

verb

Scarf v. t. (past & past part. scarfed; pres. part. scarfing)

To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf. "My sea-gown scarfed about me."

To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.

Scarf v. t.

To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, metal rods, etc.

To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.

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Etymology of 'Scarf'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Scarf" Quotes from Famous Books

... outside the window. PHILO does not look up. REBA appears and leaps lightly through the windows. Advances centre. Her dress is of clinging black, relieved by a floating scarf of cloudy white. She has a mass of blonde hair, and all the charms properly belonging to her age, which ...

— The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays • Olive Tilford Dargan and Frederick Peterson

... of Sabra, warmly glazed with Prussian blue, is relieved from the pale greenish background by a vermilion scarf; and the full hues of both are beautifully echoed, as it were, in a lower key by the purple-lake coloured stuffs and bluish iron armour of the saint, besides an ample balance to the vivid azure drapery on the ...

— Intentions • Oscar Wilde

... given in the description of their various implements. As mechanics, they have little to boast when compared with other savages lying under equal disadvantages as to scantiness of tools and materials. As carpenters, they can scarf two pieces of wood together, secure them with pins of whalebone or ivory, fashion the timbers of a canoe, shoe a paddle, and rivet a scrap of iron into a spear or arrow head. Their principal tool is the knife (panna), and, considering ...

— Journal of the Third Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage • William Edward Parry

... to gallop in between General Oudinot's camp and Garibaldi's headquarters, having on my arm a red scarf for a sign that I was not a belligerent. My scarf was not much use, however, as I was generally fired at all the time that I was passing the space between the French camp ...

— Sketches From My Life - By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha • Hobart Pasha

... wear a "lungyi," or short skirt composed of coloured silk or cloth gathered round their loins, or the more elaborate "petsoe," which is made of coloured silk and in which many yards of loose material twisted into a bunch about the waist serves as an additional scarf or head-dress should it be cold. Short socks and boots of European make are now unfortunately commonly worn, while a silk scarf of bright colour tied round the head ...

— Burma - Peeps at Many Lands • R.Talbot Kelly

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