corf

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UK/kɔːf/US/kɔɹf/

noun

A large basket, especially as used for coal.

OriginMiddle English corf ← Middle Low German korf ← Middle Dutch korf →
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Meanings

nouncorf (plural corves or corfs)

plural corves · plural corfs

  1. businessA large basket, especially as used for coal.

    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 […]?

    1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
  2. fishingA container (basket, wooden box with holes etc.) used to store live fish underwater.
  3. businessA wooden frame, sled, or low-wheeled wagon, to convey coal or ore in the mines.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
corbfish cagelivewell

Origin

  1. Proto-West Germanic*korb
  2. Middle Dutchkorf
  3. Middle Low Germankorf
  4. Middle Englishcorf
  5. Englishcorf

From Middle English corf, borrowed from Middle Low German korf or Middle Dutch korf, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *korb.

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Translations

Bulgarian винтер
  • винтер (vinter)container used to store live fish underwater
Danish hyttefad, dam
  • hyttefadcontainer used to store live fish underwater
  • damcontainer used to store live fish underwater
Finnish hiilikori, sumppu
  • hiilikorilarge basket, especially as used for coal
  • sumppucontainer used to store live fish underwater
German Fischkasten
  • Fischkastencontainer used to store live fish underwater
Irish féan guail
  • féan guaillarge basket, especially as used for coal
Māori pūkirikiri, whakarino
  • pūkirikirilarge basket, especially as used for coal
  • whakarinocontainer used to store live fish underwater
  • korotetecontainer used to store live fish underwater
Polish kosz do noszenia węgla, sadz
  • kosz do noszenia węglalarge basket, especially as used for coal
  • sadzcontainer used to store live fish underwater
Portuguese cofo, samburá
  • cofocontainer used to store live fish underwater
  • samburácontainer used to store live fish underwater
Swedish sump
  • sumpcontainer used to store live fish underwater

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with corf

wharfmorphdorfwhorfswarfblorph-morphmuscle morph
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Cite this entry
APA

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MLA

“corf.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/corf. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “corf,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/corf.

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