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▪ I. goaf1 E. Angl. dial.|gəʊf|
Forms: 5 golf(e, 6 goulfe, goef, 6, 8 goff, 6, 9 gofe, 7–9 goffe (7–8 geoff(e), 8 gulph, 9 goof, goaf. Also pl. 9 goaves.
[a. ON. gólf floor, apartment; Sw. golf, Da. gulv floor, bay (of a house or barn). Cf. goave v.
Where houses or barns were constructed with a wooden framework, the upright posts were placed at regular intervals along each side, the space between two posts forming a ‘bay’ (see bay n.3 2), and the size of the building was frequently given by stating the number of bays it contained. Each of these divisions is in the Scandinavian languages called a ‘floor’ (see above, and cf. Icel. stafgólf f. stafr a post). See goaf-stead below.]
The quantity of grain stacked in one bay of a barn.
14..Addit. MS. 12195 in Promp. Parv. 202 note, Ingelimum, golfe. c1440Promp. Parv. 428/1 Reek or golf (Pynson golfe or stak), arconius. 1530Palsgr. 226/1 Goulfe of corne, so moche as may lye bytwene two postes, otherwyse a baye. 1573Tusser Husb. lvi. (1878) 125 Let shock take sweate, least gofe take heate. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 326 A Geoff or Goffe, a Mow or Reek. 1787W. Marshall E. Norfolk II. 380 (E.D.S.) Gulph, a mow, or bay-full, in a barn. 1800Larwood Norfolk Dial. (E.D.S. No. 76) 122 The stra that the throsher had hull'd down from the gofe in the barn. 1823Moor Suffolk Words, Goof or Goaf, the mass of corn in the straw in a barn. ‘Riding the goof’, is the work of a boy on horse⁓back, to compress the corn as thrown on the goof. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Goaf, a rick of corn in the straw laid up in a barn; if in the open air it is a stack. Pl. goaves.
b. attrib. and Comb., as goaf-flap (see quots.); goaf-horse (see quot. and cf. quot. 1823 above); goaf-ladder, a ladder for use in a barn; goaf-stead (see quots.); also goaf-burned ppl. a. (see quot.; cf. Da. gulv-brændt).
1573Tusser Husb. xvii. (1878) 35 Gofe ladder, short pitchforke and long, flaile, strawforke and rake. 1787W. Marshall E. Norfolk II. 380 (E.D.S.) Gulph-stead, Goafstead, Gostead, a bay or division of a barn. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Goaf-flap, a wooden beater to knock the ends of the sheaves, and make the goaf or stack more compact and flat. Ibid., Goaf-stead, every division of a barn in which a goaf is placed. A large barn has four or more. 1840Spurdens Suppl. to Forby, Goaf-horse, the horse ridden upon the corn deposited in a barn, in order to compress it. 1863Morton Cycl. Agric. II. Gloss. (E.D.S.), Goaf-burned, corn heated in a barn.
▪ II. goaf2 Coal-mining.|gəʊf|
Also goave.
[Of obscure origin; the difference in locality and remoteness in sense are unfavourable to identification with prec. Cf. the synonymous gob n.4]
(See quots.)
1839Ure Dict. Arts 978 Before proceeding to take away another set of pillars, it is necessary to allow the last⁓made goaff to fall. 1851Greenwell Coal-trade Terms Northumb. & Durh. 29 Goaf, a space from which the coal pillars have been extracted. 1854F. C. Bakewell Geol. 39 These reservoirs of gas, called by the miners ‘goafs’. 1871Hartwig Subterr. W. xxiii. 279 The fire-damp is very liable to accumulate in old workings, or goaves. 1881H. C. Merivale in 19th Cent. No. 48. 238 The empty area left by the extraction of the coal, which, however, is soon filled up by falls of stone from the strata overlying the bed, is called the ‘goaf’. 1893Northumbld. Gloss., Goave, space cleared of coal. Usually printed, but inaccurately, as goaf. |