corfs
English
Noun
corfs
- plural of corf
- 1854, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Transactions
- Cages, with tubs containing coal, guided in shafts, also superseded the old use of wicker corfs, by being much safer and better […]
- 2000, Charles Kernot, The Coal Industry
- These corfs were also hauled along the tracks using pit ponies rather than the women and boys who had previously been employed for the task.
- 2013, Mary Beggs-Humphreys, The Industrial Revolution, page 15:
- Descent into a coal mine, early nineteenth century. Notice the wicker corfs that carried coal or people and the naked candle flame […]
- 1854, North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, Transactions
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