kerf

Etymology
From, , , from , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Related also to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice.
 * 2) The groove or slit created by cutting or sawing something; an incision.
 * 3) The portion or quantity (e.g. of wood, hay, turf, wool, etc.) removed or cut off in a given stroke.
 * 4) * 1991, Popular Mechanics, January issue, page 63, "Thin-kerf blades", by Rosario Capotostro
 * Sawing with a thin-kerf blade produces a kerf that's 1/2 to 1/3 the size of a standard blade kerf.
 * 1) The distance between diverging saw teeth.
 * 2) * 1991, Popular Mechanics, January issue, page 63, "Thin-kerf blades", by Rosario Capotostro
 * Sawing with a thin-kerf blade produces a kerf that's 1/2 to 1/3 the size of a standard blade kerf.
 * 1) The flattened, cut-off end of a branch or tree; a stump or sawn-off cross-section.
 * 1) The flattened, cut-off end of a branch or tree; a stump or sawn-off cross-section.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * German:, , , , Schnittfuge,
 * Italian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovene: (u)rez


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Schränkung
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: zareza, širina reza žage
 * Spanish:

Verb

 * 1) To cut a piece of wood or other material with several kerfs to allow it to be bent.

Etymology 1
From ; see the verb. The sense “insect” was borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) a  or

Etymology
From, from , from.

The predominance of forms in -e- is probably due to the influence of.

Noun

 * 1) The act of cutting or carving; a stroke or slice.
 * 2)  An incision; the result of cutting.
 * 3)  The edge of a blade.