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Word of the Day for Saturday, June 11, 2011kerf \KURF\, noun: 1. A cut or incision made by a saw or the like in a piece of wood. verb: They pass through a cleft that has been made across a low range of hills, like a kerf in the top of a log, and enter into a lovely territory of subtly swelling emerald green fields strewn randomly with small white capsules that he takes to be sheep. The first chips that flew were ten inches long, but they quickly dwindled as the kerf sank in. Kerf comes from the Old English cyrf, "a cutting," which relates to carve. | |||||||||
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