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3RickHarsch
ademan
5Sandydog1
tatterdemalion
cartasons
piscicultural
crocutus
cunny-fructify
tremulous
cercopitheci...
Finally! I finally, after over a year on and off, have finished with Rabelais!
cartasons
piscicultural
crocutus
cunny-fructify
tremulous
cercopitheci...
Finally! I finally, after over a year on and off, have finished with Rabelais!
6Porius
Finished or finished with or both. Tatterdemalion is a great word. Piscicultural, well I don't know, sounds on the, nah, it's just fine.
7Sandydog1
Yes both I guess, Por. What a long strange trip it's been. It's a great book to be savored, like Clif Fadimon suggests, a dozen or so pages at a time.
9RickHarsch
rheum
10RickHarsch
battleaxe
11RickHarsch
amboge, flexuosity
12RickHarsch
amboge, flexuosity
13RickHarsch
desultories, in the equine sense
14RickHarsch
pandemonium
15anna_in_pdx
Nefandous. Chris just learned this word yesterday while reading the third book of the Cthulu series.
16RickHarsch
fandango
18RickHarsch
squamous
20RickHarsch
You simply step on a jellyfish.
21ChocolateMuse
I regularly carry a jellyfish for that purpose.
22RickHarsch
Yes, I've heard of you people who are by birth unable to pass a day without spouting 'squamous'. I guess one gets used to anything.
23RickHarsch
Heigh-ho?
24RickHarsch
glamph
25RickHarsch
oederite
27MeditationesMartini
manservantuetude
29ChocolateMuse
flabbergasted.
Hey we haven't seen much of Rick lately. Are you out there Rick?
Hey we haven't seen much of Rick lately. Are you out there Rick?
32anna_in_pdx
29 I was just thinking the same thing. Was he going on a trip somewhere?
33copyedit52
A couple of weeks ago Rick said he would be going to India around now.
34RickHarsch
intubulated
I am IN HERE, thanks for asking. I am going to India on the 29th, expecting martinimartini about the 25th.
I would like to suggest that on this page we supply definitions, though I refuse to be the first.
Otherwise, I am busy selling books. We haven't gotten to the English language countries yet, Ireland and England being targets, but I am awful close to covering publisher costs after which I get 50% minus 15 to my editor. The publisher will pay my agent. I will let you know when I get it on Amazon UK if I manage (in august).
reviews have been great so far, my favorite a woman in Belgium who missed her train stop because she was caught up in the book. Someone else shouted 'it's great' to my wife as she drove by her.
My reading has been haphazard til this past weekend when I picked up Slavoj Žižik's Defense of Lost Causes. Powys is shelved til the return from India.
Meanwhile I fell a long ways down some stairs in Maribor at a friend's apartment, which left me with two remarkable bruises on my ass and a pain in the back that causes an unseemly limp. I also fell into a pond there and rode a Lipizzaner with an enormous cock that I touched briefly, shocking my friend's father, my reason being that it is not something many can say they have done. Tonight I was teaching my son how to whittle and gave him an excellent lesson in what not to do, slicing my thumb so bad it was still bleeding three hours later when I took the bandage off. The second lesson is to leave the bandage on.
I am IN HERE, thanks for asking. I am going to India on the 29th, expecting martinimartini about the 25th.
I would like to suggest that on this page we supply definitions, though I refuse to be the first.
Otherwise, I am busy selling books. We haven't gotten to the English language countries yet, Ireland and England being targets, but I am awful close to covering publisher costs after which I get 50% minus 15 to my editor. The publisher will pay my agent. I will let you know when I get it on Amazon UK if I manage (in august).
reviews have been great so far, my favorite a woman in Belgium who missed her train stop because she was caught up in the book. Someone else shouted 'it's great' to my wife as she drove by her.
My reading has been haphazard til this past weekend when I picked up Slavoj Žižik's Defense of Lost Causes. Powys is shelved til the return from India.
Meanwhile I fell a long ways down some stairs in Maribor at a friend's apartment, which left me with two remarkable bruises on my ass and a pain in the back that causes an unseemly limp. I also fell into a pond there and rode a Lipizzaner with an enormous cock that I touched briefly, shocking my friend's father, my reason being that it is not something many can say they have done. Tonight I was teaching my son how to whittle and gave him an excellent lesson in what not to do, slicing my thumb so bad it was still bleeding three hours later when I took the bandage off. The second lesson is to leave the bandage on.
35Porius
Rick old boy you've got to be more careful. Or you will whittle yourself away to next to nothing. I' still pondering the pond story.
http://www.lipizzaner.com/images/intropic_1.jpg
How did you manage to come in such close proximity with the horses member. A members' only moment, doubtless. Who needs Powys, already.
http://www.lipizzaner.com/images/intropic_1.jpg
How did you manage to come in such close proximity with the horses member. A members' only moment, doubtless. Who needs Powys, already.
36slickdpdx
You'd think the Lippenzaner touch would have changed your luck. Seems like the kind of thing that would, if anything could.
37copyedit52
He's a wildman, this Rick Harsch. No doubt about it.
38geneg
Sounds to me, Peter, like Rick could teach you some tricks about leading the life authorial. Start with a big bottle of slivovitz and work from there.
39copyedit52
I like my thumb, gene. It's what I use to grip my pen.
40RickHarsch
On the way to a book event in Ljubljana I was given by neighbors of a woman we picked up in mountains near Lj a large shot of Slivo, about 2 deciliters, which is to say at least two shots. dictated by politesse I quaffed it...had a good night.
Re lipdick: it was just a-hangin there within a stoop and a reach...
Re lipdick: it was just a-hangin there within a stoop and a reach...
42RickHarsch
flagellum---the one where you have to use a vice to hold the two parts together for 10 hours.
43RickHarsch
'I like my thumb, gene. It's what I use to grip my pen.' one of my favorite June posts.
47copyedit52
I second seiche
48RickHarsch
tounce
50RickHarsch
katabasis
52absurdeist
Valium
53RickHarsch
Quaalude
54absurdeist
Pieroin
55tomcatMurr
clitwart
56RickHarsch
bachmaniasma
57absurdeist
rectalthermometer
58RickHarsch
the-modulus-of-elasticity
61RickHarsch
the grievous grebe of the glabrous glade
62RickHarsch
...of the risible
64anna_in_pdx
chthonian
66RickHarsch
subchthonian
68RickHarsch
fancypants
69ChocolateMuse
sprezzatura
70copyedit52
Valium ... Quaalude ... and ... Pieroin?
71absurdeist
yessirree!
And don't forget "rectalthermometer" -- as Archie & Edith once sang at the opening of All in the Family, "those werrrrrrrrrrreeeee the dayyyyyyyyys"
And don't forget "rectalthermometer" -- as Archie & Edith once sang at the opening of All in the Family, "those werrrrrrrrrrreeeee the dayyyyyyyyys"
72copyedit52
Sturm und Drang
74absurdeist
collossal tits
testosterone
testosterone
77PeterKein
>34 RickHarsch:
The way most of my father's wisdom was passed onto me - via negativa... viz. dont do it that this way....
The way most of my father's wisdom was passed onto me - via negativa... viz. dont do it that this way....
79Tuirgin
cnicin
(ˈknaɪsɪn)
f. L. cnīc-us (see below) + -in.
A bitter principle obtained from the leaves of Cnicus benedictus, and other Composite plants.
1863–72 Watts Dict. Chem. I. 1029 Cnicin forms white transparent silky needles, having a pure bitter taste.
(OED)
(ˈknaɪsɪn)
f. L. cnīc-us (see below) + -in.
A bitter principle obtained from the leaves of Cnicus benedictus, and other Composite plants.
1863–72 Watts Dict. Chem. I. 1029 Cnicin forms white transparent silky needles, having a pure bitter taste.
(OED)
84tomcatMurr
AWESOME (I love this word. It really does express a feeling of positive awe, and has the added benefit of making me feel so young when I use it)
89RickHarsch
langur
90RickHarsch
languor
91RickHarsch
linger
92RickHarsch
ligula, liguloid, liguliform, especially ligula
93RickHarsch
lingereeeeeeee
94RickHarsch
languescent
95RickHarsch
lagopous
96RickHarsch
laggard
97RickHarsch
lagoon--bad French for the thug
100RickHarsch
I have two excellent brass lingams, one just bought in India. As opposed to my balls...
101RickHarsch
99> I prefer when she lingues me early.
104anna_in_pdx
thaumaturge
105PeterKein
did I upset the universe? Is it 'L' day or something? lutulent is a wonderful word.. I will use it to denigrate a colleague's consciousness post-haste.
107RickHarsch
More to the point: tincture
108MeditationesMartini
TORSION
110RickHarsch
Name of one of my turtles, who had been run over or something, a giant, shell deformed: Terrapinstein.
113RickHarsch
there you go, complete with definitions, that's the way it should be
or, as Haiku
Complete the way it should
be without definitions
Did you not go there?
or, as Haiku
Complete the way it should
be without definitions
Did you not go there?
115RickHarsch
anole--commonly mistakenly called a chameleon
117RickHarsch
imperfricate
119RickHarsch
fork
121Macumbeira
crotchrot
122isabelle612
Absquatulate
123RickHarsch
second absquatulate
127isabelle612
abderian
128isabelle612
pyknic
130isabelle612
Mallemaroking, basorexia, brontide.
Brontide is my favourite word. Ever.
Brontide is my favourite word. Ever.
131absurdeist
Well, not quite my favourite word ever (pleasure to make your acquaintance, isabelle!), but in reading tonight, Isaac Babel's story, "In the Basement," came across the word
brio
"My schoolmates listened mouths agape to the fantastic tale I told with so much brio,..."
brio
"My schoolmates listened mouths agape to the fantastic tale I told with so much brio,..."
132RickHarsch
And just then, Feodor bit off the end of my brio--
133isabelle612
Actually, I am known for having lots of brio! ha ha ... And I don't like it when someone bites off the end of my brioche... Nice to meet you too! Both of you.
134anna_in_pdx
I love "brio" too. It is one of those words that comes from music, I think. We need to use those words more!
"He's a bit piano for my taste" - Admiral Croft from Persuasion
"He's a bit piano for my taste" - Admiral Croft from Persuasion
136RickHarsch
farthing
(Slick--I dated his Syz. sister in high school)
(Slick--I dated his Syz. sister in high school)
138RickHarsch
You mean the P.I. starring Stacey Keach?
140RickHarsch
He put dozens of them behind bars.
141RickHarsch
gigantomachy
142isabelle612
batrachophagous
143isabelle612
Umbrage. Great word. Just stole it from Freeque Enrique.
144anna_in_pdx
Hopefully he won't take any at you.
145isabelle612
I'm perturbed.
146RickHarsch
perturbation
148slickdpdx
I thought that'd be the antonym of incipient. Like "never happening" or something. I was wrong, apparently, unless with use it came to mean what it does. I can see how it might. No OED at hand.
152henkmet
>134 anna_in_pdx: when discussing a CD project our conductor asked what were the 'tutti costs' ...
153anna_in_pdx
152: I love it!
155RickHarsch
frag
157RickHarsch
any monger will do here
158MeditationesMartini
'climinalistic'
159RickHarsch
clitoralistically
160PabloItalo
decay
161tomcatMurr
Welcome! (to pabloItalo, who seems to have recently joined both the salon and LT!!)
162RickHarsch
deracinate. (benvenuti, Pablo)
163DanMat
clerisy (merhba Pablo)
157: Even the whoremonger? Wait, don't answer that...on a sidenote, whoremongery is a nice word.
157: Even the whoremonger? Wait, don't answer that...on a sidenote, whoremongery is a nice word.
166RickHarsch
ratfink
170RickHarsch
urgestrian
171MeditationesMartini
whereas
172MeditationesMartini
gibes
173MeditationesMartini
japes
174MeditationesMartini
gambols
176theaelizabet
swizzle sticks
177anna_in_pdx
geoducks
178RickHarsch
whereass
181absurdeist
178> I love that one, Rick!
179> classic! And, um, how's your "pubic health" dear?
and since we're speaking of pubic health, how 'bout a mouthful of a word from Ulysses:
contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality
word above's no joke. ImNotDedalus (remember him, our first genius academic hereabouts?; besides Murr, of course) defines the word here.
also, Murr's explication of the same word.
179> classic! And, um, how's your "pubic health" dear?
and since we're speaking of pubic health, how 'bout a mouthful of a word from Ulysses:
contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality
word above's no joke. ImNotDedalus (remember him, our first genius academic hereabouts?; besides Murr, of course) defines the word here.
also, Murr's explication of the same word.
183RickHarsch
word for the day: gefundite
appreciations to Ur for interdisciplinary spanking
and DanMesicknthrowp for the references, the two blues, brillaint tag team litwrestling, i think Murr especially has jimmy down
appreciations to Ur for interdisciplinary spanking
and DanMesicknthrowp for the references, the two blues, brillaint tag team litwrestling, i think Murr especially has jimmy down
184Macumbeira
181 still impressive after all these years
who was this jjskye ? A first rebel ? an avatar ? : )
who was this jjskye ? A first rebel ? an avatar ? : )
186absurdeist
184> Isn't it? So much material there just waiting to be discovered, re-explored. Ahhh, jj. I sincerely miss her (and her creative quilts). May The Quest's first casualty ever R.I.V.P.
U, if you have Kafka's The Penal Colony handy, it may help illumine your inquiry.
U, if you have Kafka's The Penal Colony handy, it may help illumine your inquiry.
187urania1
>186 absurdeist: Never ask a misanthropic Dick anything.
188RickHarsch
Ur, a visit to any male locker room will answer 93% of your question.
190RickHarsch
93.71899999%
191RickHarsch
Exhibit A: Two stalls side by side: does one look?
194RickHarsch
Urp,
stalls look
royal one
or not
Jeanie Tayla
stalls look
royal one
or not
Jeanie Tayla
196anna_in_pdx
Pelagic
198RickHarsch
patagia
201RickHarsch
essacoque
204geneg
When I lived in DC during the sixties, I and some friends would go to Baltimore to the strip clubs. They were very easy to find. Just head for the big Pepto-Bismol sign. It was visible from all over downtown and signified the armpit of Baltimore.
205RickHarsch
As Chico Marx would say, 'essa good one, eh boss?'
206RickHarsch
Gene, lqarl, but apropos of what?
207geneg
Urania at #197 reminded me of that sign. At the time, it was the quintessential landmark of downtown Baltimore.
208Porius
Baltimore always con-jurrs up images of Brooks Robinson, Jim Palmer, Frank Robinson, Mike Cuellar (spelling?), Johnny Unitas and Raymond Berry.
And the movie DINER.
ESSACOQUE, a Rick made-up werd, distaffruester? Essa can always signal Jesus the Christ. Or as old Melville would say: cockadoodledoo.
And the movie DINER.
ESSACOQUE, a Rick made-up werd, distaffruester? Essa can always signal Jesus the Christ. Or as old Melville would say: cockadoodledoo.
210RickHarsch
I remember the big sign in Detroit: ESSACOQUE, you could see it from the French neighborhood in Toronto...
Paul Blair! Cuellar is indeed Cuellar, that screwball. Mark Belanger: what a pleasing name, though it was tough for him to coax a ball into the gap when he batted.
And that, of course brings up those wild visitors of the whorehouses beneath that giant Exxon sign that gave fair Detroit light: Norm Cash (.361), Mickey Lolich, Denny McClain, and another gorgeous name: Al Kaline, and Bill Freehan...Dave Campbell!
Paul Blair! Cuellar is indeed Cuellar, that screwball. Mark Belanger: what a pleasing name, though it was tough for him to coax a ball into the gap when he batted.
And that, of course brings up those wild visitors of the whorehouses beneath that giant Exxon sign that gave fair Detroit light: Norm Cash (.361), Mickey Lolich, Denny McClain, and another gorgeous name: Al Kaline, and Bill Freehan...Dave Campbell!
211geneg
My bat, when I played Little League was named for Ferris Fain. I hit six home runs with that sucker one year.
212urania1
I get it. Like a Peptobismal bottle essacoque is a phallic symbol as in urania says to beloved "Essa cocoque! And what a coque it essa. Oh baby I come." . . . or something to that effect.
214Porius
Al Kaline. A single to right field. Al would lope in and gather in the ball and prepare to make the routine throw to second. Meanwhile the guy who hit the single would take a big turn towards second, for no apparent reason, and Al of course bluffed his routine throw to second, snapped a laser to first as the runner tried desperately to double back. Result: out by five feet. They don't play that game within the game these days, do they?
215RickHarsch
Vladimir Guerrero will have been the last. Also the last to simply decide to keep running no matter what. And of course, Clemente probably rarely got an out at first because of his reputation.
218RickHarsch
gonif
219RickHarsch
antileptic
220RickHarsch
dysleptic
221RickHarsch
cryptoleptic
222RickHarsch
prokleptic
223theaelizabet
dyspeptic
224RickHarsch
dysapoplectic
226RickHarsch
ineptic
230guido47
too many posts to read, but a word I have loved for at least 50 years...
Velleity, perhaps a reflection on my personality?
Guido.
Velleity, perhaps a reflection on my personality?
Guido.
231Porius
A rare word indeed guido47, i had a slight inclination to look it up but decided against it.
234RickHarsch
moribund velleity is one of my favorite phrases
238Porius
hek-see-i-tee, not unrelated to quiddity, or the essence or nature of a thing. To go on, that which, maybe, answers the question (not so perfect for haiku, maybe), quid est=what is it?
A subtle distinction; cavil, quibble.
Something intangible.
Maybe g47, I try not to think about haiku too much. The more you analyze the worse it is for you.
A subtle distinction; cavil, quibble.
Something intangible.
Maybe g47, I try not to think about haiku too much. The more you analyze the worse it is for you.
239Macumbeira
that word is a haiku on itself
241anna_in_pdx
concatenate
245citygirl
Funny, slick. It's true. When I did a fast a few months ago, I did a lot of food sniffing. Surprising how satisfying it was.
Por, I don't know what means. Do I want to know what that means?
Por, I don't know what means. Do I want to know what that means?
249RickHarsch
harp
251slickdpdx
I read a story in Brooklyn Noir last week that used 'harp' as a derogatory term for Irishmen.
253citygirl
pancakes
As in, I'm craving them and about to see if I can convince Husband to take me to IHOP right now. Wish me luck!
As in, I'm craving them and about to see if I can convince Husband to take me to IHOP right now. Wish me luck!
254RickHarsch
husbands suck. take it from me, I've been one for...well, I don't know, but a while, at least a decade
255RickHarsch
suck
257RickHarsch
POHI--Personal Orodontal Hygiene Instructor
IHOP--I Had an Orgasm, Paul
IHOP--I Had an Orgasm, Paul
260MeditationesMartini
bishonen
264anna_in_pdx
263: let's hear it for Gary Larsen. A true genius!
265RickHarsch
geophagous
267RickHarsch
you mean the orbophages?
268Sandydog1
264 (oh, Anna Dear),
I didn't even know that term's origins. Hilarious! I picked that one up while reading Spalding's Dinosaur Hunters. There was absolutely no reference to one of our most famous of naturalists, Mr. Larsen.
I didn't even know that term's origins. Hilarious! I picked that one up while reading Spalding's Dinosaur Hunters. There was absolutely no reference to one of our most famous of naturalists, Mr. Larsen.
270RidgewayGirl
cullion
272anna_in_pdx
Enantiomer which is a term in chemistry (which I did NOT ever take in school) meaning non superimposable mirror image (yes, I don't understand that either). Funnily enough, the word was used in a political article discussing similar-yet-different congressional campaigns. I am impressed by the policy wonk using such a high octane word.
273RickHarsch
haughty
275RickHarsch
frump
277Porius
Johnson 1755: sweepings, refuse, lees, dregs. eg, a draff of filthy errors - 1755; of filthy stories -1205.
Residue of husks after fernenration of grain. Feed for cattle.
draf - Old Norse
trebir - Old High German
drob - Russian
- a draff of wickershams.
Residue of husks after fernenration of grain. Feed for cattle.
draf - Old Norse
trebir - Old High German
drob - Russian
- a draff of wickershams.
278RickHarsch
knout
280RickHarsch
lqarl
281RickHarsch
snout
283tomcatMurr
dejecta
284RickHarsch
mortambulo
286RickHarsch
tripartisan
287anna_in_pdx
landslide
288RickHarsch
avelaunch
290ChocolateMuse
^ especially in France.
292ChocolateMuse
delurk
293Macumbeira
especially at "La Perouse" in Paris
296RickHarsch
pissant
300RickHarsch
pissilious
301RickHarsch
psst
302anna_in_pdx
cesspool
303RickHarsch
pottymouth
307RickHarsch
double axolotl
313RickHarsch
hejnał (Polish. Trumpet. Ten seconds to each of the four directions, breaking off at the end as if the trumpeter was shot in the neck by an arrow, commemorating the 1242 (?) attack by the Tatars, who shot the warning trumpeter in the neck with an arrow. Pronounced Heynow.)
316RickHarsch
excorporal
317RickHarsch
scarm
324RickHarsch
gin
327guido47
#310,
My Dear Sir,
Is your 'kerf' a 1) notch
2) slit
3) channel
4) other
Inquiring minds would like to know.
Your servant,
Guido.
My Dear Sir,
Is your 'kerf' a 1) notch
2) slit
3) channel
4) other
Inquiring minds would like to know.
Your servant,
Guido.
329guido47
My Dear Mr.Durick,
May I call you 'Robert'?
Well, this is (I think) only the 4th time that I have had a chance to show off my "Complete OED". OK only on CD. And definitely "Show Off" :-)
..............................................................
kerf
(kɜːf)
Forms: α. 1 cyrf, 4 kyrf, 5 kirf, 6 kyrfe. β. 4–7 kerfe, (4–5 -ff(e), 4– kerf, (9 dial. curf, kurf). γ. See carf.
OE. cyrf, app.:—*kurƀi-, f. *kurƀ- (cf. ON. kurf-r chip, kyrfa to cut), ablaut-form of *kerƀ, stem of OE. ceorfan to carve. Hence ME. kirf, giving later kerf and karf; cf. kernel and carnel from ME. kirnel, OE. cyrnel. Cf. (with different stem vowel) Du. kerf, Ger. kerb, kerbe; also ON. kjarf, Icel. kerfi, bundle (of twigs, etc.), Sw. kärfve sheaf.
1.1 The act of cutting or carving; a cut, stroke; †power of cutting. Now rare.
c 1000 Ælfric Hom. II. 406 ‘Ælc treow ðe ne wyrcð godne wæstm bið forcorfen.‥’ Be ðisum cyrfe spræc se Hælend on oðre stowe. 13‥ Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 372 ‘Kepe þe cosyn’, quoth þe kyng, ‘þat þou on kyrf sette’. 1390 Gower Conf. II. 152 With sondri kerf and pourtreture Thei made of goddes the figure. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxxvii. (MS. Bodl.) lf. 234 b/1 Þe kuttinge of vines schal be aslonte‥so þat in þe oþer side afore þe knotte þe kerfe schal passe. 1892 Vizetelly tr. Zola's Débâcle 289 Then, with a single kerf of the saw, he lopped them off.
†b.1.b Humorous term for a company of pantry-men. Obs.
1486 Bk. St. Albans F vij, A Kerff of Panteris; a Credens of Seweris; an vnbrewyng of Kerueris. 1678 Phillips (ed. 4) App., A Kerf of Panthers (among some Venatory writers), is taken for a company of Panthers.
2.2 The result of cutting; the incision, notch, slit, etc., made by cutting, esp. by a saw.
1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §136 Bycause it a saw is thyn, it wyll cut the narowe kyrfe. 1664 Evelyn Sylva (1776) 132 Cut your kerfe near to the ground, but have a care the Tree suffer not in the fall. 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New Hampsh. III. 156 The felling of such a tree must require much labour, since those of but one inch have eight or ten strokes, distinctly marked, and a very good kerf is allowed. 1812–16 J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I 99 The saw, when cutting, takes away the wood at the two sides of the kerf. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 121 A matter-of-fact place is a sawmill.‥ Its great problem is how to minimize the ‘kerf’, the kerf being the track of the saw.
†b.2.b fig. The furrow made by a ship's keel. rare.
c 1422 Hoccleve Learn to Die 203 As a ship þat is sayllynge‥Whos kerfe nat fownden is whan past is shee.
3.3 The place at which a tree or branch is or has been cut across; the cut end or surface either on a felled or pruned tree.
c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 190 Turne euery kirf aweyward from the grape; Lest droppyng do hit harm. 1664 Evelyn Sylva 85 A Tree‥thirteen foot diameter at the Kerf, or cutting place neer the Root. Ibid. 92 One foot of Timber neer the Root (which is the proper kerfe, or cutting place) is worth three farther off. 1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 161 The Oaks had none of them any roots, but plainly cut off at the kerf, as is used in felling Timber. 1868 Blackley Word Gossip (1869) 161 (E.D.D.) A woodman will say that a felled tree ‘measures so and so, not counting the kurf’.
4.4 A piece or quantity cut off; a cutting (of anything).
1678 Phillips (ed. 4) App. s.v., Among Woodmen Kerf signifieth a parcel of Loppings of wood. 1730 in Swayne Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896) 352 Carrying away a Kerfe of half a foot of earth. 1890 Cent. Dict., Kerf, in a cloth-shearing machine, the wool taken off in one passage through the cutter.
5.5 Comb. as †kerf-shears.
1356 in Riley Mem. London (1868) 283 4 small anfeldes for goldsmiths, and 2 kerfsheres.
Hence ˈkerfed a., having kerfs or slits. ˈkerfing-machine, a machine for sawing kerfs in a board (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875).
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I do wonder what "pantry men" are/do?
Guido.
May I call you 'Robert'?
Well, this is (I think) only the 4th time that I have had a chance to show off my "Complete OED". OK only on CD. And definitely "Show Off" :-)
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kerf
(kɜːf)
Forms: α. 1 cyrf, 4 kyrf, 5 kirf, 6 kyrfe. β. 4–7 kerfe, (4–5 -ff(e), 4– kerf, (9 dial. curf, kurf). γ. See carf.
OE. cyrf, app.:—*kurƀi-, f. *kurƀ- (cf. ON. kurf-r chip, kyrfa to cut), ablaut-form of *kerƀ, stem of OE. ceorfan to carve. Hence ME. kirf, giving later kerf and karf; cf. kernel and carnel from ME. kirnel, OE. cyrnel. Cf. (with different stem vowel) Du. kerf, Ger. kerb, kerbe; also ON. kjarf, Icel. kerfi, bundle (of twigs, etc.), Sw. kärfve sheaf.
1.1 The act of cutting or carving; a cut, stroke; †power of cutting. Now rare.
c 1000 Ælfric Hom. II. 406 ‘Ælc treow ðe ne wyrcð godne wæstm bið forcorfen.‥’ Be ðisum cyrfe spræc se Hælend on oðre stowe. 13‥ Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 372 ‘Kepe þe cosyn’, quoth þe kyng, ‘þat þou on kyrf sette’. 1390 Gower Conf. II. 152 With sondri kerf and pourtreture Thei made of goddes the figure. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. clxxvii. (MS. Bodl.) lf. 234 b/1 Þe kuttinge of vines schal be aslonte‥so þat in þe oþer side afore þe knotte þe kerfe schal passe. 1892 Vizetelly tr. Zola's Débâcle 289 Then, with a single kerf of the saw, he lopped them off.
†b.1.b Humorous term for a company of pantry-men. Obs.
1486 Bk. St. Albans F vij, A Kerff of Panteris; a Credens of Seweris; an vnbrewyng of Kerueris. 1678 Phillips (ed. 4) App., A Kerf of Panthers (among some Venatory writers), is taken for a company of Panthers.
2.2 The result of cutting; the incision, notch, slit, etc., made by cutting, esp. by a saw.
1523 Fitzherb. Husb. §136 Bycause it a saw is thyn, it wyll cut the narowe kyrfe. 1664 Evelyn Sylva (1776) 132 Cut your kerfe near to the ground, but have a care the Tree suffer not in the fall. 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New Hampsh. III. 156 The felling of such a tree must require much labour, since those of but one inch have eight or ten strokes, distinctly marked, and a very good kerf is allowed. 1812–16 J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I 99 The saw, when cutting, takes away the wood at the two sides of the kerf. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 121 A matter-of-fact place is a sawmill.‥ Its great problem is how to minimize the ‘kerf’, the kerf being the track of the saw.
†b.2.b fig. The furrow made by a ship's keel. rare.
c 1422 Hoccleve Learn to Die 203 As a ship þat is sayllynge‥Whos kerfe nat fownden is whan past is shee.
3.3 The place at which a tree or branch is or has been cut across; the cut end or surface either on a felled or pruned tree.
c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 190 Turne euery kirf aweyward from the grape; Lest droppyng do hit harm. 1664 Evelyn Sylva 85 A Tree‥thirteen foot diameter at the Kerf, or cutting place neer the Root. Ibid. 92 One foot of Timber neer the Root (which is the proper kerfe, or cutting place) is worth three farther off. 1677 Plot Oxfordsh. 161 The Oaks had none of them any roots, but plainly cut off at the kerf, as is used in felling Timber. 1868 Blackley Word Gossip (1869) 161 (E.D.D.) A woodman will say that a felled tree ‘measures so and so, not counting the kurf’.
4.4 A piece or quantity cut off; a cutting (of anything).
1678 Phillips (ed. 4) App. s.v., Among Woodmen Kerf signifieth a parcel of Loppings of wood. 1730 in Swayne Churchw. Acc. Sarum (1896) 352 Carrying away a Kerfe of half a foot of earth. 1890 Cent. Dict., Kerf, in a cloth-shearing machine, the wool taken off in one passage through the cutter.
5.5 Comb. as †kerf-shears.
1356 in Riley Mem. London (1868) 283 4 small anfeldes for goldsmiths, and 2 kerfsheres.
Hence ˈkerfed a., having kerfs or slits. ˈkerfing-machine, a machine for sawing kerfs in a board (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875).
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I do wonder what "pantry men" are/do?
Guido.
330anna_in_pdx
If I remember correctly there is an entire essay about kerfs and sawing. I think it might be by Aldo Leopold. It is a great word, isn't it?
331Mr.Durick
I cannot find in Google images what kerf means to me. When you cross cut a board on a table saw you can get a neat line of sawdust right alongside the cut (which itself apparently can be called a kerf); I have heard that line of sawdust called a kerf.
Robert
Robert
332RickHarsch
pantry-men
The Kerf of the Pantry-Men
by the author of
Riders of the Purple Sage
The Kerf of the Pantry-Men
by the author of
Riders of the Purple Sage
336RickHarsch
mephitine
339MeditationesMartini
Mantovani
340RickHarsch
mortadella
343Macumbeira
Flabbergasted
346MeditationesMartini
it's not an easy choice, but I'll take "durniuok" over "scriptai."
347anna_in_pdx
Wow, spam is getting so surreal.
348jbbarret
>346 MeditationesMartini: What's wrong with us jupis?
349Macumbeira
Why am I not surprised it is the Lithuanians again...?
350RickHarsch
candelabra
351Macumbeira
antidiluvian
353RickHarsch
invalidiluvian
355RickHarsch
I take that as an insult
358RickHarsch
frank
359RickHarsch
lank
360RickHarsch
wank
361RickHarsch
skank
362RickHarsch
flank
363RickHarsch
rank
364RickHarsch
stank
365RickHarsch
yank
366MeditationesMartini
some Izola wags decided to have some fun at the expense of the ...?
367MeditationesMartini
sherman tank
374RickHarsch
See, I just don't like some ank words.
Now, this one is good
hanky
Now, this one is good
hanky
375RickHarsch
Panky, with hanky
376RickHarsch
hijinks
377RickHarsch
jinx
378RickHarsch
stinks
379RickHarsch
The Maeterlincks
380RickHarsch
lynx
384RickHarsch
prinx (to flitter between tables at a public dinner event to which you weren't invited--so and so prinxed passed our table...)
386Macumbeira
The good thing about this String is that it pumps up our activity statistics
388RickHarsch
gruel
389anna_in_pdx
hygienist
390RickHarsch
stygian
391RickHarsch
giantism
392RickHarsch
magnet
393janeajones
let's go somewhere else -- postlapsarianism
394RickHarsch
plaguer
396RickHarsch
Vagleur
398RickHarsch
entrepot
400Mr.Durick
Escargot is such a good word that I considered just putting it in again. But then, this morning, I discovered 'cronut.'
Robert
Robert
401RickHarsch
Crogargot is next.
402Mr.Durick
A really buttery fresh croissant with plenty of very garlicky snail butter added and so loaded with escargot that the croissant can't hold it all -- that's a good word.
Robert
PS They haven't quite achieved it, but this might be something to eat while waiting for the real thing.
R
Robert
PS They haven't quite achieved it, but this might be something to eat while waiting for the real thing.
R
403RickHarsch
I can't get it off my screen.
404Sandydog1
I don't know. I don't eat too much from the class gastropoda. But then again, I rarely eat anything that doesn't have a backbone...
405Mr.Durick
Now there's a good reason not to eat summer squash -- no backbone. On the other hand 'summer squash' is a mighty fine word, in a manner of speaking.
Robert
Robert
406RickHarsch
drygulcher
408RickHarsch
Squiddities
410RickHarsch
talpine
412Macumbeira
Detumescence
413RickHarsch
she's lying
414Macumbeira
down ?
416RickHarsch
flattened
417anna_in_pdx
Yesterday I got teased by my team for saying "anodyne" in a meeting. I retracted it and went with "bland."
:(
:(
418RickHarsch
tepid minds at work?
419Macumbeira
417 Oh come on Anna, so disappointing ! Never descend to their level ! If they don't understand you, it is not your fault they are philistines...Just give them the Kramskoi "look"
http://www.macumbeira.com/2010/11/grushenka.html
http://www.macumbeira.com/2010/11/grushenka.html
420RickHarsch
That would do me in.
421Sandydog1
Mac,
I could never have thought of a better retort and compliment to Anna. That painting was perfection.
I could never have thought of a better retort and compliment to Anna. That painting was perfection.
422janeajones
gorgeous painting
424RickHarsch
hedge