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▪ I. scarfed, ppl. a.1 (skɑːft; poet. ˈskɑːfɪd) Also scarved. [f. scarf v.1 + -ed2.] Invested with a scarf; wearing a scarf; also, decorated with or as with scarfs. Cf. scarved ppl. a.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. vi. 15 The skarfed barke puts from her natiue bay. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. v. xii. 356 Scarfed tricolor Municipals. 1863Kinglake Crimea (1876) I. xiv. 269 Their fire pelted straight into the group of the scarfed Deputies. 1920Blunden Waggoner 53 The lispering aspens and the scarfed brook grasses With wakened melancholy writhe the air. 1967Boston Sunday Herald 30 Apr. v. 5/1 (Advt.), Shaped and scarfed for cool summer perfection in rayon and silk.
1885Perring Hard Knots 81 The noted beauty—she who was admired, courted, beautifully scarved and apparelled. 1958M. Stewart Nine Coaches Waiting v. 54 Philippe and I went out..coated and scarved against the breeze. 1972F. Warner Lying Figures iii. 21 Scarved, laughing children, scuffing the leaves! 1976New Yorker 8 Mar. 41/2 The lottery sellers were gloved and scarved. ▪ II. scarfed, ppl. a.2|ˈskɑːft| Also scarphed. [f. scarf v.2 + -ed1.] Joined by means of a scarf. scarfed joint = scarf n.2 1.
1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Skarfed, the Sea Term, when one Peice of Timber is let and fastned into another. 1801Encycl. Brit. Suppl. I. 170/2 Scarfed tie-beams. 1805Southey Madoc ii. xxv, Tear up the deck, the severed planks bear off, Disjoin the well-scarfed timbers. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 652 The joint is what is denominated a half-lap, or scarfed joint. 1975Anglo-Saxon England IV. 187 D. M. Wilson has noted that long ships with scarphed keels were built in Scandinavia in the thirteenth century. |