corf

From Middle English corf, from Middle Low German korf or Middle Dutch korf, from Proto-Germanic *kurbaz (“basket”), of disputed origin. Related to German Korb (“a basket, creel”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɔːf/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kɔɹf/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)f
• Hyphenation: corf

corf (plural corves or corfs)

1. (mining) A large basket, especially as used for coal.
   • 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon:

     Why, I am simple as a pony, Sir […] ?– born in a Drift, a Corf for my cradle, and nought but the Back-shift for Schoolmasters there […] ?

2. A container (basket, wooden box with holes etc.) used to store live fish underwater.
3. (mining) A wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.

• corb, corp, crop

From Vulgar Latin *corbus < Classical Latin corvus.

corf m (oblique plural cors, nominative singular cors, nominative plural corf)

1. crow (bird)

• corbel