orf

From Middle English orf, from Old English orf (“cattle, livestock”), akin to Old English ierfe (“inheritance, livestock, cattle”). More at erf.

orf (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Cattle.

• orf in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

From the same source as Etymology 1, or from Old Norse hrufa (“scab”) (whence also dandruff).

• IPA^(key): /ɔːf/
• Rhymes: -ɔːf

orf (uncountable)

1. (medicine) An exanthemous disease caused by a parapox virus, occurring primarily in sheep and goats but also capable of infecting humans.

• IPA^(key): /ɔːf/
• Rhymes: -ɔːf

orf (plural orfs)

1. Alternative form of orfe (the fish)

• IPA^(key): /ɔːf/
• Rhymes: -ɔːf

orf (not comparable)

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   • Enid Blyton, The Mystery of the Secret Room

     'Yes – you clear orf!' said Mr Goon majestically, feeling that he really had got the better of those interfering kids this time.

orf

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orf

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• 'fro, FOR, for, for-, fro

• IPA^(key): /ɔrv/
• Rhymes: -ɔrv

orf n (genitive singular orfs, nominative plural orf)

1. snath
2. string trimmer

• (string trimmer): sláttuorf n

• orve, oreve, orfe

From Old English orf.

• IPA^(key): /ɔrf/

orf (plural orffes)

1. Stock, cattle; farm animals.
2. A group of ovines in particular.

• English: orf

• “orf (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-2.