scarfn.¹

Brit.

/skɑːf/, U.S.

/skɑrf/

Forms: Plural scarfs, scarves. Forms: 1500s–1600s scarfe, scarff(e, scarph(e, skarf(e, 1600s skarffe, 1500s– scarf.

Etymology: Of obscure history; not recorded before the middle of the 16th cent., but probably < Old Northern French escarpe = Central Old French escharpe , modern French écharpe sash, sling for a wounded arm, etc. (whence Italian sciarpa , ciarpa , Spanish charpa , German schärpe , Middle Dutch scharpe , and modern Dutch sjerp ), probably the same word as Old French escharpe , escarpe , esquerpe , escreppe , etc., a pilgrim's scrip suspended from the neck; of Germanic origin: compare Old Norse skreppa scrip n.¹The more normal form scarp is found (almost as early as scarf ) in the heraldic sense 5a; possibly, though unrecorded, it may have been the original English form in all senses. It is noteworthy that all the words of the form scarp have variants with f : for the change of final p into f after liquids compare scalp n.² Various German dialects have scherf(e, scharfe (whence Russian šarf) for the literary German schärpe, but this coincidence with English seems to be merely accidental. The original plural form scarfs has never gone out of use; but from the beginning of the 18th cent. the form scarves (on the analogy of halves, etc.) has been common, and in London commercial use it appeared to have become universal in the early 20th cent. No other noun of other than native origin had this change of f into v in the plural.

1. A broad band of silk or other material, worn (chiefly by soldiers or officials) either diagonally across the body from one shoulder to the opposite hip, or round the waist; = sash n.¹ 2.The purpose of the military ‘scarf’ or ‘sash’ is now merely decorative or significant of rank or the like. Originally, it served for carrying things, and some references to this use occur in the early quots. below.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > belt or sash

belteOE

scarfa1555

mitre?1609

sash1681

sash ribbon1861

a1555¹ [see sense 2].

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xi. f. 31^v His wife Panthea brought him an armure of golde..and a Crimsen skarfe.

1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xiii. 126 b The target..hee carryed in a scarfe about his shoulders.

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. D3 Flourishing entred Iohn Leiden the botcher into the field, with a scarfe made of lists like a bow-case.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 180 What fashion will you weare the garland of?..vnder your arme, like a Lieutenants scarffe ?

1644 R. Symonds Diary (1859) 41 A man in compleate coloured armour and scarfe.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 350 The men wear apparel of Deer-skins.., one arm uncovered, and so they wear their garment like a scarf.

1660 J. Tatham Royal Oake 2 Eight other Gentlemen carrying Banners in Plush Coats, and Skye coloured Scarffs about their Shoulders.

1689 London Gaz. No. 2445/4 Lost.., an Officers Scarf with four gold Fringes round the Wast, set on Crimson Silk, and a very deep Fringe at each end.

1743 A. Pope Ess. Man (new ed.) ii. 279 Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage.

1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 130 Cromwell, half-length in armour, page tying his scarf.

1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. ii. 21 Over his left shoulder hung an embroidered scarf which sustained a small pouch of scarlet velvet.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. iii. 379 Municipality and Mayor have on their scarfs.

1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld I. ii. 126 Forty-eight pages in white, yellow, and red scarves.

1902 L. S. Amery Times Hist. War S. Afr. II. 189 Their colonel..had led waving his silk scarf to his men.

2. Ecclesiastical. A band of silk or other material worn round the neck, with the two ends pendent from the shoulders in front, as a part of clerical costume. In the 18th cent. spec. the scarf worn by a nobleman's chaplain (cf. quot. 1866); hence, a chaplaincy.

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society > faith > artefacts > vestments > neck and shoulder garb > [noun] > band(s)

tippet1530

scarfa1555

Geneva bands1636

banda1700

church tippet1813

lappet1869

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > chaplain > [noun] > office of

chaplainship1536

chaplainry1566

scarf1712

chaplaincya1745

a1555 Lady Fane Let. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1445/2 I wyll supplie your request for the scarfe ye wrote of, y^t ye may present my handy worke before your captayne.

a1555 Philpot Let. to Lady Vane 10 Dec. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1570) 2009/1 You haue so armed me to the Lords battell both inwardly and outwardly... You haue appointed me to so good and gracious a Generall of the field,..that [etc.]... The Scarffe I desyre as an outward signe to shew to our enemies.

1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 11 Dec. (1948) I. 118 I dined with Mrs. Vanhomrigh, to desire them to buy me a scarf; and lady Abercorn is to buy me another, to see who does best; mine is all in rags.

1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 539. ¶3 I yesterday heard a young Gentleman, that look'd as if he was just come to the Town, and a Scarf, upon Evil-speaking.

1738 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 35 The Duke of Portland is very sorry not to be able to grant a scarf to our acquaintance—his are all filled up.

1844 Life C'tess Huntingdon I. 132 The excellent Lady Huntingdon..invited him to her house.., gave him her scarf, and as her chaplain, he continued long to preach to the poor in her kitchen unmolested.

1866 J. Purchas & F. G. Lee Directorium Anglicanum (ed. 3) 359 Scarf worn by Chaplains; it is made of silk of the colour of the nobleman's livery to whom the cleric is chaplain... The Black Scarf is worn over the Gown by Doctors in Divinity, Cathedral Dignitaries and Bishops' Chaplains.

1903 Church Times 11 Dec. 748/4 A deacon is entitled, like any other clergyman, to wear the broad black tippet, or scarf, over his surplice.

a. A broad strip of silk, gauze, or other fine material, worn hung loosely over the shoulders or otherwise as an ornamental accessory to the costume.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for head or neck or body > [noun] > scarf

tippetc1300

scarf1560

1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams xciv. sig. Bviii^v When do mothers fray their babes most from duggs. When they put on blacke scarfs, & go lyke beare buggs.

1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Giv They must haue their silk scarffes cast about their faces & fluttering in the winde with great tassels at euery end, either of gold, siluer or silk.

a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. sig. H^v Needlesse noughts, as crisps, and scarphes worne Alla Morisco.

a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. A7^v They that shalbe actors in this Massacre, Shall..tye white linnen scarfes about their armes.

1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Epigram xxvii. sig. C Why in the stop-throate fashion doth he go, With Scarfe about his necke? Hat without band?

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 285 Murrellus and Flauius, for pulling Scarffes off Cæsars Images, are put to silence.

1624 Skelton's E. Rummyng Prol. 82 Scarfs, feathers, and swords, And thin bodkin-beards.

1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. i. 1 Trickt in skarffe and feather.

1713 London Gaz. No. 5173/4 A black Gause Scarf;..a blue Lustring-Scarf with a Gause Body.

1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) IV. xlii. 260 What a pretty shew they will make, with their white hoods, white gowns, white petticoats, white scarves!

1766 London Mag. July 335 The new thing called a Scarf, with its depending tassels, looks so much like an advertisement that if the place of abode was added, there is no doubt, but that it would draw in custom.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) iv. 38 Two young ladies in scarfs and feathers.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 10 A purple scarf, at either end whereof There swung an apple of the purest gold, Sway'd round about him.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. Proem 4 His..cap, with its..long hanging strip of drapery, to serve as a scarf in case of need.

1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iv, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 191 Dressed in a Tyrian scarf with a fringe of broidery gay.

†b. used as a bandage for the eyes, or a veil.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > [noun] > anything obstructing sight > blindfold

scarf1587

muffler1600

bumble1623

bandeau1861

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > veil > material used as a veil

netOE

scarf1587

dupatta1615

orhni1678

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xx. 361 His [sc. God's] spiritual nature, which we cannot possibly comprehend, but as it were through a glasse, or a scarf.

1611 G. Chapman May-day ii. i. 28 My assurance is that Cupid will take the scarfe from his owne eyes and hoodwinke the old buzzard.

1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie ii. vii. 170 And if any thing slip under the rehearsall, it is to be a scarff over the face, and to shew, the griefe could not be expressed.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 232 They have but a maske or scarfe over their faces.

c. figurative and in extended use.

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?1614 W. Drummond Sextain: Sith gone is my Delight in Poems Among the lesser lights as is the Moone, Blushing through scarfe of clouds on Latmos Mountaine.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 82 And with each end of thy blew bowe do'st crowne My boskie acres, and my vnshrubd downe, Rich scarph to my proud earth.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Triumph of Life in Posthumous Poems (1824) 88 Still before me on the dusky grass, Iris her many-coloured scarf had drawn.

1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxvii. 373 The moon had risen slowly, breaking through a rent scarf of cloud that barred her solemn, white disc.

1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains ii. 89 The fogs are in possession of the lower levels; they crawl in scarves among the sandhills.

d. spec. The scarf of black crape or silk worn over the shoulder by mourners at funerals.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for shoulders > scarf worn by mourners

scarf1739

1739 Will in J. O. Payne Rec. Eng. Catholics (1889) 53 No scarves, gloves, nor hat-bands.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 13 A dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern.

1850 G. J. French Tippets 8 (note) The modern custom of wearing at funerals both a hatband and a scarf over the shoulder, curiously marks the extravagance which has crept into such ceremonies.

e. A band of warm and soft material worn round the neck in cold weather; = comforter n. 6.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > scarf or wrap > as protection from cold

muffler1594

comforter1823

scarf1823

neck shawl1828

comfortable1835

neck warmer1852

neck-comforter1853

muffeteea1890

1823 C. Mathews Let. 17 Feb. in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1839) III. 368 And also two scarfs, I think they are called.

1844 J. Gaugain Lady's Assistant II. Accomp. 37 Warm Crochet Scarf. Worked in eight-ply Berlin wool.

f. A necktie or cravat that more or less covers the bosom of the shirt.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > neck-tie or cravat > types of

scarf1865

squeeze1877

club tie1897

1865 J. Morley Mod. Characteristics 79 Gorgeous scarves which have been long superseded by white ties.

1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xli. 355 Most gentlemen are now content with the made-up scarves of all sizes, colours, and materials, which [etc.].

g. (See quot.)

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1910 Encycl. Brit. VII. 277/2 Scarf is a kind of dhootie made usually with a taped or corded border.

†4. A sling for an ailing limb. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical supports > [noun] > sling

scarf1598

mitella1661

string1718

sling1720

suspensorium1771

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 29/2 He must weare his arme before on his breste in a scarfe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. ii. 20 Oh my deere Orlando, how it greeues me to see thee weare thy heart in a scarfe.

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. v. 14 Lesly..carried his foot in a Scarf for a wound he had receiv'd at Buckstoho.

1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 165 The arm must be carried in a Scarf.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ix, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 271 His wounded arm was supported by a scarf, or sling of crimson silk.

5. Heraldry.

a. = scarp n.¹

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > charge of simplest or commonest kind > band crossing shield diagonally > running from top right to bottom left > of half width

scarp1562

scarf1688

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory i. 30/1 He beareth Argent, a Scarpe Purpure, of some termed a Scarf.

1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Bend The bend-sinister is subdivided into the scarf, or scarp, and the battoon.

a1823 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XV. 431 The Bend sinister consists of similar lines drawn in an opposite direction from the sinister chief to the dexter base of the shield. Its diminutive is the scarf occupying one half of its breadth.

b. = banderole n. 2a.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > other heraldic representations > [noun] > banderole

banderole1596

scarf1780

1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. (Gloss.) Scarf, a small ecclesiastical banner, hanging down from the top of a crosier.

†6. A scroll or plate bearing an inscription.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > [noun] > scroll of

roll?c1225

scrow?c1225

scroll14..

scarf1655

rotulet1833

volumen1851

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. xi. 238 The Vault thus prepared, a scarfe of lead was provided some two foot long,..therein to make an inscription.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

scarf-end n.

ΚΠ

1868 G. M. Hopkins Note-bks. & Papers (1937) 115 Fine afternoon with snow-white flying scarf-ends in the clouds.

scarf-maker n.

ΚΠ

1725 London Gaz. No. 6403/4 Anne Howard,..Scarf-maker.

scarf-tie n.

ΚΠ

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 425 In an oatmeal sporting suit.., tony buff shirt, shepherd's plaid Saint Andrew's cross scarftie.

1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 16 June 9- c/5 (advt.) This dress is a breeze—buttons up one side to the flutter of a scarf tie.

scarf-veil n.

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1907 Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 4/3 A useful scarf-veil.

scarf-like adj.

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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escharpeux,..scarfe-like.

1852 Meanderings of Memory I. 109 Scarf-like and ethereally slight.

1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour iv. 67 Suspended from a baudrick, or scarf-like shoulder-belt, this sword reached from the hollow of the back to about the middle of the thigh.

C2.

scarf cloak n. a light narrow cloak or tippet; scarf-loom, a loom for weaving figured fabrics of moderate breadth (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cloak, mantle, or cape > types of > other

cowlc961

rocheta1325

dud1355

paenulaa1400

jornay1495

jornet1502

glaudkin1518

paludament1543

mantoon1623

mantoplicee1672

bavaroy1713

roquelaure1716

poncho1717

manteel1733

pelerine1744

mat1773

wrap-rascal1796

benish1797

nabob1803

scarf cloak1804

ruana1814

witzchoura1823

all-rounder1837

pardessus1843

visitec1847

tilma1851

talma1852

sontag1859

Inverness cape1865

dolman1872

Niçois1873

Mother Hubbard1877

1804 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 4 Aug. 2/3 Scarf cloaks of leno or worked muslin over coloured silks, are universally worn.

† scarf-man n. Obsolete a clergyman of rank entitling him to wear a scarf.

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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > of rank to wear scarf

scarf-officer1710

scarf-man1711

1711 P. H. Impartial View Two Late Parl. 23 The inferior Priests and Deacons, and all under the Degree of Scarf Men were made to understand.

† scarf-officer n. Obsolete an officer who is entitled to wear a scarf.

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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > of rank to wear scarf

scarf-officer1710

scarf-man1711

1710–11 J. Addison Spectator No. 21. ¶2 We may divide the Clergy into Generals, Field-Officers, and Subalterns. Among the first we may reckon Bishops, Deans, and Arch-Deacons. Among the second are Doctors of Divinity, Prebendaries, and all that wear Scarfs... It is found that there has been a great Exceeding of late Years in the Second Division, several Brevets having been granted for the converting of Subalterns into Scarf-Officers.

scarf-pin n. a pin for fastening a scarf, or worn for ornament in a scarf (sense 3f).

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > brooch or pin > [noun] > worn on specific article of clothing

tasselc1330

shirt pin1775

tie-pin1780

prop1850

scarf-pin1859

spark-prop1879

1859 Habits Good Society (new ed.) iii. 142 A scarf-pin which is neither large nor showy.

scarf-ring n. a ring for holding a scarf (sense 3f) in position.

Draft additions 1993

Also, a square piece of material worn tied (usually folded) round the head; = square n. 10e.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > head-cloth or -scarf

headclothOE

head-lineOE

headrailOE

head-kerchief1378

kercherc1380

coverchiefc1386

voluperc1386

kerchiefa1400

curch1447

amict1480

head-kercher1556

orhni1678

headscarf1688

handkerchiefa1774

kopdoek1911

scarf1917

1917 Harrods Gen. Catal. 1420 (caption) Chiffon Motor Scarf, wide hem-stitched border..in all the latest shades. 4/6.

1959 Encounter Oct. 32/2 A voile scarf tied babushka-style.

1978 J. Morris Oxford (rev. ed.) ii. ii. 15 Despondent women look in with Paisley scarves on their heads, on their way to scrub floors or clean office desks.

1988 N. Lowndes Chekago iv. 184 Marina looks silly in that pill-box hat... Why couldn't she have worn a scarf?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scarfn.²

Brit.

/skɑːf/, U.S.

/skɑrf/

Forms: Also Middle English scarffe, 1500s skarfe, 1700s scarfe, 1700s–1800s scarph, 1800s skerf.

Etymology: Words of related form and identical meaning (chiefly belonging to the nautical vocabulary) are found in several modern languages, but recorded much later than in English: French écart ( < *escarf) a scarf, verbal noun < écarver ( < *escarver) to scarf; Spanish escarba, Portuguese escarva a scarf; Dutch scherf a scarf, verscherven (whence German verscherben) to scarf; Swedish skarf, Norwegian skarv piece added to lengthen a board or a garment, also the joint or seam by which this is effected; Swedish skarfva, Norwegian skarva, skjerva to lengthen by joining or sewing on an additional piece (Danish has in this sense skarre, the relation of which to the Swedish form is obscure). The relation of these words to each other and to the English noun and verb is uncertain. The fact that the Swedish words are not, like those in the other languages, exclusively technical, but have a wider meaning, seems to afford a slight presumption in favour of Scandinavian as the ultimate source. But even assuming this, it remains doubtful whether the English noun comes from Swedish (or some other Scandinavian dialect) directly or through the medium of Old French *escarf. The Swedish skarf has commonly been referred to the Germanic root *skerƀ-, skarƀ-, represented by Old English scearfian (= Old High German scarpôn, German scharben) to cut into shreds, Old English sceorfan strong verb, to gnaw, bite, scarify, Dutch scherf (= Old High German scirbi, German scherbe) potsherd; but affinity in meaning seems wanting.

a. Carpentry and Shipbuilding. A joint by which two timbers are connected longitudinally into a continuous piece, the ends being halved, notched, or cut away so as to fit into each other with mutual overlapping.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > means of fitting together > types of joint

indenting1382

scarf1497

swallowtail1548

dovetail1565

mortise-piece1577

tenon and mortise1610

culver-tail1616

mortise and tenon1631

finger joint1657

breaking joint1663

meeting1663

mitre1665

scarfing1671

heading joint1773

dovetail-joint1776

butting joint1803

bevel-joint1823

lap-joint1823

lapped mitre1825

mitre dovetail1847

bridle joint1860

mortise1875

sypher-joint1875

keyed mitre1876

tongue-and-groove1882

saddle joint1948

1497 [see scarf-timber n. at Compounds].

1580 H. Smith in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 475 Wee halled a ground to stoppe a leake, which we found to be in the skarfe afore.

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 8 Next your Nauell timbers, and bind them all with sixe foote Skarfe at the least.

1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 47 The Scarfs of her Keel and Stern.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Apron The scarf thereof should be at some distance from that of the stern.

1779 W. Barnard in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 108 Pl. 3 Beams of Fir 12 inches square, put across in halves, with 12 feet scarph.

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 280 In each piece of timber to be joined, the parts of the joints that come in contact are called scarfs.

1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 362/1 The scarf of the poles is shown in Fig. 3.

1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. viii. 109 The ends of these planks are supported on the frames, adjacent ones being formed into a scarph.

†b. Shipbuilding. The overlapping of adjacent timbers in a ship's frame, in order to secure continuity of strength at the joints. Phrase, to give scarf. Obsolete.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > methods of joining timbers

scarf1711

boxing1805

1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 39 Let the Top~timber be placed..that they may give Scarf to the Port~holes.

1754 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation at Scarf But when the ends of the two pieces [of timber] are cut square and put together, they are said to butt to one another; and when another piece is laid upon, and fastened to both..this is called scarphing the timbers; and half the piece which fastens the two timbers together is reckoned the length of the scarf.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 379/2 These represent the length and scarf of the several timbers in the midship frame.

1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 141 The lower..riders..fay alongside the floor riders, and give scarph above them.

2. Metal-working. (See quots.)

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1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 220 In smith's work likewise, the joinings are called scarfs... The scarfs required for the shut, are made by first upsetting or thickening the iron... It is next rudely tapered off.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Scarf, the flattened or chamfered edges of iron prepared for welding.

1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 297/2 The point of the scarf is farthest into the fire.

Compounds

scarf-joint n. = senses 1, 2.

1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §252 The four stones..were..to be united to each other by Hook-Scarf-Joints.

1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 329/1 The common scarf joint..is made by merely halving each piece of timber for a certain length, and then bolting or strapping the two pieces together.

1919 S. F. Walker Electr. Mining Machinery xx. 154 A scarf joint is..good if it is well made and very carefully bound.

1948 F. Wightman Wind is Free ii. 33 It had to be hoisted with a block & tackle on sheerpoles to bring it up to where its scarph joint fitted into the one cut on the forward end of the keel timber.

scarf-jointing n. the process of joining timbers by means of a scarf.

1907 Proc. Soc. Antiq. 14 Feb. 349 The method of construction is that known technically as scarf-jointing.

† scarf-timber n. Obsolete timber in short lengths for scarfing.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > timber in pieces > in short lengths for scarfing

scarf-timber1497

1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 312 Certeyn Scarffe Tymbre price—viij^s vj^d.

scarf-weld n. (see quot. 1882).

1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Scarf-weld, a peculiar joint made in welding two pieces of metal, as iron, together.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

† scarfn.³

Etymology: Alteration of scarp n.²

Military.

= scarp n.²

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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > side of ditch nearest to parapet

scarp1589

scarf1591

escarp1688

escarpment1802

scarpment1861

1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Coraxa entre dos muros A scarfe between wals, Musculus.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 126 These Caualleres..haue also their Scarphe or Alambor [Sp. alambor declivity of a ditch].

1603 Court Roll in Athenæum 21 Nov. (1885) 668/3 Euerie man shall make vpe sufficiently all the Scarfes betwixt the milne & Restone Inges betwene this & Christmas next.

1645 Enchir. Fortif. 6 The Talud, or Scarfe, of the outside of the Rampart.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso ii. xlii. 297 Ditches, Ravelins, Scarfes, & Counter-scarfes.

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scarfn.⁴

Brit.

/skɑːf/, U.S.

/skɑrf/

Forms: Also 1600s, 1800s, scarfe, 1800s scarff; and see scart n.¹

Etymology: < Old Norse skarf-r, Norwegian, Swedish skarf.

Orkney and Shetland dialect.

A cormorant or a shag.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Phalacrocoracidae > member of (cormorant)

cormorantc1320

plungeon1480

gormaw?a1513

scart1513

sea-coot1575

sea-crow1579

scrath16..

sea-raven1611

sea-drake1632

storta1661

scarf1668

diver1766

Isle of Wight parson1806

the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Phalacrocoracidae > phalacrocorax aristotelis (shag)

shag1566

scarf1668

shag pelican1785

shag cormorant1826

1668 F. Jessop in J. Ray et al. Philos. Lett. (1718) 38 I have procured the Skin of a great Bird which he that gave it me call'd a Scarfe.

1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xiii. 107 The sussing of Kitnings, clamring of Scarfes, whimpring of Fullmarts.

1744 T. Preston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 61 (2) Whaps, Toists,..Plovers, Scarfs, &c.

1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 300 The Shag (pelecanus graculus..), so well known by the name of Scarf, is very frequently seen.

1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 300 The Cormorant..our great Scarf, is a species not so numerous as the former.

1868 D. Gorrie Summers & Winters in Orkneys v. 153 A lazy scarff here and there raised himself up at length over the surface.

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scarfn.⁵

Brit.

/skɑːf/, U.S.

/skɑrf/

Etymology: Probably < scarf n.²

1. Whaling A longitudinal cut made in a whale's body.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > [noun] > cut made in whale

scarf1851

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxvii. 339 As the blubber in one strip uniformly peels off along the line called the ‘scarf’.

1874 C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals N. Amer. 63 A scarf is cut along the body and through the blubber, to which one end of a tackle is hooked.

2. Forestry. A V-shaped incision cut in a trunk during felling, to govern the direction in which the tree is to fall; also, the sloping surface left by such an incision.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > felling trees > cut in tree

kerfc1420

scarf1863

undercut1883

fall notch1893

1863 8th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. i. 36 The bark of the stock opposite the scarf with a thin sliver of wood is cut down.

1887 J. D. Billings Hardtack & Coffee (1888) 180 When an army first went into camp trees were cut with the scarf two or three feet above the ground.

1903 R. J. Clow Pillar of Salt iii. 55 It meant a bit of work to cut down a tree seven feet in diameter... Stello cut in the inside scarf and I put in the back chip.

1926 K. S. Prichard Working Bullocks xxxii. 296 Half-dozen men..stood on their rough-barked logs... The scarf showed ruddy as a wound in the logs.

1962 J. N. Winburne Dict. Agric. 673/1 Scarf,..the beveled cut on a log or stump which results from undercutting a tree in felling.

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scarfn.⁶

Brit.

/skɑːf/, U.S.

/skɑrf/

Etymology: Variant of scoff n.²

U.S. slang.

= scoff n.²

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > [noun]

meateOE

eatOE

foodOE

fodderOE

dietc1230

gista1290

victual1303

victualsa1375

preya1382

feedinga1398

pasturea1398

viancea1400

viandsc1400

livingc1405

meatingc1425

vitalyc1440

vianda1450

cates1461

vivers1536

viandry1542

viander1543

gut-matter1549

peck1567

belly-cheer1579

appast1580

manchet1583

chat1584

belly-metal1590

repasture1598

cibaries1599

belly-timber1607

belly-cheat1608

peckage1610

victuallage1622

keeping1644

vivresa1650

crib1652

prog1655

grub1659

beef1661

fooding1663

teething1673

eatablea1687

sunket1686

yam1788

chow-chow1795

keep1801

feed1818

grubbing1819

patter1824

ninyam1826

nyam1828

grubbery1831

tack1834

kai1845

mungaree1846

scoff1846

foodstuff1847

chuck1850

muckamuck1852

tuck1857

tucker1858

hash1865

nosh1873

jock1879

cake flour1881

chow1886

nosebag1888

stodge1890

food aid1900

tackle1900

munga1907

scarf1932

grubber1959

1932 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 9 Dec. 31/5 Scarf, food.

1944 D. Burley Orig. Handbk. Harlem Jive 81 ‘Pick up on the scoff, cherub.’.. The ‘scoff’ or ‘scarf’ in the above simple statement is dinner food, meals.

1961 F. J. Rigney & L. D. Smith Real Bohemia p. xvi Scarf, food; eat, believed to have come from a French chef, Scarfannelli.

1973 L. Snelling Heresy ii. iv. 89 How's for a bit of scarf, my tummy's anguished.

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scarfv.¹

Brit.

/skɑːf/, U.S.

/skɑrf/

Forms: Also 1600s scarfe, skarfe, 1800s skarf.

Etymology: < scarf n.¹

a. transitive. To clothe, cover, or wrap with or as with a scarf or scarves; to invest with a scarf; †to blindfold.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > prevent from seeing [verb (transitive)] > blindfold or cover eyes

blindfold?c1225

to stop (a person's) eyes or sightc1380

enclose1477

silec1500

hoodwink1562

muffle1573

scarf1598

bluff1673

to seal (a person's) eyes or ears1700

bonnet1828

blink1846

occlude1921

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > scarf or sash

scarf1598

sasha1797

bescarf1826

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > as with garment > specific

overshrouda1522

enveil1555

scarf1598

bemantle1620

superinvest1624

buskin1795

apron1865

1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. vi. 46 The sturdy Plough-man doth the soldier see, All scarfed with pide colours to the knee.

1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age ii. ii. C 3 Why doth Adonis..shun this Iuory girdle of my armes? To be thus scarft the dreadfull God of warre Would giue me conquered kingdomes.

1632 T. Hawkins tr. P. Matthieu Vnhappy Prosperitie 95 Claudius caused that of Augustus to be taken from the Theater of the Gladiators, that it might not ever be present at murther, or be alwayes scarfed.

a1634 J. Day Peregrinatio Scholastica (Stowe 3150) f. 8^v Slitely shadow'de or scarft w^th a thin tinsell, or Tirean vaile.

1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xix. 373 Bare Of foot, of limb, scarfed only round the loins.

1849 M. Arnold Resignation 5 Warriors..Scarf'd with the cross.

1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby (1895) vi. 280 Our three friends..duly scarfed and scarfpinned [etc.].

b. transferred and figurative.

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. ii. 48 Come, seeling Night, Skarfe vp the tender Eye of pittifull Day.

1630 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion (rev. ed.) 18 Scarff'd in a rosie Cloud, Hee doth ascend the Aire.

a1639 T. Dekker et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) ii. ii. 23 Blushing Adonis scarft in modesties.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xxxiii. 147 Others skarf'd in rugged folds of ice.

1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth xxxi. 309 The great sun is still shining, though it be scarfed by earthly vapours.

1897 F. Thompson New Poems 112 Who scarfed her with the morning?

2. To wrap (a garment) about or around a person in the manner of a scarf. Also transferred. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > wrap or envelop > in manner of a scarf

scarf1604

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > wrap (a wrapping)

lapa1300

wrapc1400

scarf1604

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 14 Vp from my Cabin, My sea-gowne scarft about me in the darke Gropt I to find out them.

1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age iii. sig. I3^v My fingers Il'e intangle in these curles, And scarfe my Iuory arme about thy necke.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc ix. 256 On the earth the chieftain slept, His mantle scarft around him.

1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. 252 They..had a large mantle of gray checquered cloth scarft round them.

†3. To bind up (wounds) with, or as with a scarf; ? to place (a limb) in a sling. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > treat by topical applications [verb (transitive)] > bandage

bindc1175

scarf1601

fast1618

band1700

roll1746

fetter1756

bandage1774

to strap up1843

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > treat by topical applications [verb (transitive)] > place in sling

scarf1601

1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 161 Wee scarifie them, we scarfe them not.

1605 A. Wotton Answere Popish Pamphlet 25 Let them shift themselues, as they list, and skarfe their soares, according to their fancies.

1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xliv. 1) 338 Had it been fit for him to scarfe their bones before they were set?

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scarfv.²

Brit.

/skɑːf/, U.S.

/skɑrf/

Forms: Also 1600s scarfe, scarff, skarf, 1700s– scarph.

Etymology: < scarf n.²

a. transitive. To join by a scarf-joint.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > join > with specific joint or method

mortisea1450

culver-tail1616

scarf1627

tenon1652

dovetail1657

cock1663

shoot?1677

knee1711

indent1741

mitre1753

halve1804

box1815

tongue1823

sypher1841

cog1858

butt joint1859

jag1894

lap-join1968

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 3 Those are skarfed into the ground timbers.

1643 T. Horn & J. Robotham tr. J. A. Comenius Gate Lang. Unlocked (ed. 6) xlviii. §530 The Joyner plaineth plankes..he skarfeth and ioyneth them close with culver-tailes.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) Thus they say the Stem of a Ship is Scarfed into her Keel; and they imply by it, That the two Peices are shaped away slanting, so as to join with one another close and even.

1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §42 Timbers, properly scarphed together.

1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 285/1 Tye-beams..were formed almost wholly of short lengths, averaging not more than 20 feet, lapped and scarfed.

1849 H. W. Longfellow Building of Ship in Seaside & Fireside 15 The keel of oak for a noble ship, Scarfed and bolted.

1860 Encycl. Brit. XX. 186/1 The several pieces are scarphed together.

1976 Yankee Apr. 109/1 He forced me to scarph the keel timbers in watertight sections.

b. (See quot. 1754.)

ΚΠ

1754 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation ii. v. 189 But when the ends of the two pieces [of timber] are cut square and put together, they are said to butt to one another; and when another piece is laid upon, and fastened to both..this is called scarphing the timbers; and half the piece which fastens the two timbers together is reckoned the length of the scarf.

2. Metal-working. To bevel or flatten (the ends or edges of the pieces of metal to be welded).

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline [verb (transitive)] > bevel

cant1542

splay1598

chamfret1611

cipher1674

bevel1678

bezel1680

chamfer1688

champer1788

scarf1831

to wash off1833

splay1879

1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 188 The extremities of each bar are scarfed.

1861 W. Fairbairn Iron 211 Mr. Bertram scarfs the edges of the plates, places them together [etc.].

1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 303/1 Scarf it for welding.

3. intransitive. To be joined with a scarf. Const. to.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > work with wood [verb (intransitive)] > join or do work of joiner > be joined with specific joint

mitre1764

scarf1794

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 35 The inner end of the boom, to which it scarfs with a tongue.

1860 Encycl. Brit. XX. 185/2 The foremost end of the keelson scarphs to the stemson.

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scarfv.³

Brit.

/skɑːf/, U.S.

/skɑrf/

Etymology: < scarf n.⁵

1. transitive. Whaling. To make a ‘scarf’ or incision in the blubber of (a whale). Also absol.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > cut up whale or seal [verb (transitive)] > cut up whale or seal

flench1814

to cut in1839

scarf1851

spade1887

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxvii. 340 The heavers singing, the blubber-room gentlemen coiling, the mates scarfing, the ship straining, and all hands swearing occasionally.

1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 278/1 The second mate ‘scarfs’, or cuts the body blubber.

2. New Zealand. Forestry. To cut a scarf in (timber). Also back-scarf, belly-scarf (see quot. 1928). Cf. scarf n.⁵

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > lumber [verb (intransitive)] > make cut or notch

scarf1899

1899 J. Bell In Shadow of Bush xiv. 83 The smaller trees..had been ‘scarfed’, or cut partly through in readiness, and skilfully, so that each, when struck, might again in its turn strike and bring down another.

1904 ‘G. B. Lancaster’ Sons o' Men 164 He..scarfed the timber for the saw.

1928 P. T. Kenway Pioneering in Poverty Bay v. 38 He will ‘belly-scarf’ and ‘back-scarf’ the lot, that is to say he will cut about a third through on both the lower and higher sides.

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scarfv.⁴

Brit.

/skɑːf/, U.S.

/skɑrf/

Etymology: Variant of scoff v.²

U.S. slang.

transitive and intransitive = scoff v.² 1. Also with up and down.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (intransitive)]

eatc825

to break breadeOE

baitc1386

feeda1387

to take one's repast?1490

to take repast1517

repast1520

peck?1536

diet1566

meat1573

victual1577

graze1579

manger1609

to craw it1708

grub1725

scoff1798

browse1818

provender1819

muckamuck1853

to put on the nosebag1874

refect1882

restaurate1882

nosh1892

tucker1903

to muck in1919

scarf1960

snack1972

1960 R. G. Reisner Jazz Titans 164 Scarf, eat.

1968 C. Armstrong Balloon Man viii. 98 They don't want to faint from hunger, so..they scarf up what they call a bite before they go.

1974 Black World June 77/1 King Dust would sit there, ‘scarfing’, as he called it, in silence.

1975 High Times Dec. 80/3 I can pick jimsonweed and chop it up and scarf it down as well as the next guy.

1976 R. Condon Whisper of Axe ii. xviii. 265 Let's..scarf up some of that osso bucco.

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n.¹a1555

n.²1497

n.³1591

n.⁴1668

n.⁵1851

n.⁶1932

v.¹1598

v.²1627

v.³1851

v.⁴1960

单词	scarf
释义	scarfn.¹ Brit. /skɑːf/, U.S. /skɑrf/ Forms: Plural scarfs, scarves. Forms: 1500s–1600s scarfe, scarff(e, scarph(e, skarf(e, 1600s skarffe, 1500s– scarf. Etymology: Of obscure history; not recorded before the middle of the 16th cent., but probably < Old Northern French escarpe = Central Old French escharpe , modern French écharpe sash, sling for a wounded arm, etc. (whence Italian sciarpa , ciarpa , Spanish charpa , German schärpe , Middle Dutch scharpe , and modern Dutch sjerp ), probably the same word as Old French escharpe , escarpe , esquerpe , escreppe , etc., a pilgrim's scrip suspended from the neck; of Germanic origin: compare Old Norse skreppa scrip n.¹The more normal form scarp is found (almost as early as scarf ) in the heraldic sense 5a; possibly, though unrecorded, it may have been the original English form in all senses. It is noteworthy that all the words of the form scarp have variants with f : for the change of final p into f after liquids compare scalp n.² Various German dialects have scherf(e, scharfe (whence Russian šarf) for the literary German schärpe, but this coincidence with English seems to be merely accidental. The original plural form scarfs has never gone out of use; but from the beginning of the 18th cent. the form scarves (on the analogy of halves, etc.) has been common, and in London commercial use it appeared to have become universal in the early 20th cent. No other noun of other than native origin had this change of f into v in the plural. 1. A broad band of silk or other material, worn (chiefly by soldiers or officials) either diagonally across the body from one shoulder to the opposite hip, or round the waist; = sash n.¹ 2.The purpose of the military ‘scarf’ or ‘sash’ is now merely decorative or significant of rank or the like. Originally, it served for carrying things, and some references to this use occur in the early quots. below. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > belt or sash belteOE scarfa1555 mitre?1609 sash1681 sash ribbon1861 a1555¹ [see sense 2]. 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xi. f. 31^v His wife Panthea brought him an armure of golde..and a Crimsen skarfe. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xiii. 126 b The target..hee carryed in a scarfe about his shoulders. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. D3 Flourishing entred Iohn Leiden the botcher into the field, with a scarfe made of lists like a bow-case. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 180 What fashion will you weare the garland of?..vnder your arme, like a Lieutenants scarffe ? View more context for this quotation 1644 R. Symonds Diary (1859) 41 A man in compleate coloured armour and scarfe. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 350 The men wear apparel of Deer-skins.., one arm uncovered, and so they wear their garment like a scarf. 1660 J. Tatham Royal Oake 2 Eight other Gentlemen carrying Banners in Plush Coats, and Skye coloured Scarffs about their Shoulders. 1689 London Gaz. No. 2445/4 Lost.., an Officers Scarf with four gold Fringes round the Wast, set on Crimson Silk, and a very deep Fringe at each end. 1743 A. Pope Ess. Man (new ed.) ii. 279 Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage. 1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 130 Cromwell, half-length in armour, page tying his scarf. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. ii. 21 Over his left shoulder hung an embroidered scarf which sustained a small pouch of scarlet velvet. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. iii. 379 Municipality and Mayor have on their scarfs. 1874 J. L. Motley Life John of Barneveld I. ii. 126 Forty-eight pages in white, yellow, and red scarves. 1902 L. S. Amery Times Hist. War S. Afr. II. 189 Their colonel..had led waving his silk scarf to his men. 2. Ecclesiastical. A band of silk or other material worn round the neck, with the two ends pendent from the shoulders in front, as a part of clerical costume. In the 18th cent. spec. the scarf worn by a nobleman's chaplain (cf. quot. 1866); hence, a chaplaincy. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > neck and shoulder garb > [noun] > band(s) tippet1530 scarfa1555 Geneva bands1636 banda1700 church tippet1813 lappet1869 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > chaplain > [noun] > office of chaplainship1536 chaplainry1566 scarf1712 chaplaincya1745 a1555 Lady Fane Let. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1445/2 I wyll supplie your request for the scarfe ye wrote of, y^t ye may present my handy worke before your captayne. a1555 Philpot Let. to Lady Vane 10 Dec. in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1570) 2009/1 You haue so armed me to the Lords battell both inwardly and outwardly... You haue appointed me to so good and gracious a Generall of the field,..that [etc.]... The Scarffe I desyre as an outward signe to shew to our enemies. 1710 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 11 Dec. (1948) I. 118 I dined with Mrs. Vanhomrigh, to desire them to buy me a scarf; and lady Abercorn is to buy me another, to see who does best; mine is all in rags. 1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 539. ¶3 I yesterday heard a young Gentleman, that look'd as if he was just come to the Town, and a Scarf, upon Evil-speaking. 1738 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 35 The Duke of Portland is very sorry not to be able to grant a scarf to our acquaintance—his are all filled up. 1844 Life C'tess Huntingdon I. 132 The excellent Lady Huntingdon..invited him to her house.., gave him her scarf, and as her chaplain, he continued long to preach to the poor in her kitchen unmolested. 1866 J. Purchas & F. G. Lee Directorium Anglicanum (ed. 3) 359 Scarf worn by Chaplains; it is made of silk of the colour of the nobleman's livery to whom the cleric is chaplain... The Black Scarf is worn over the Gown by Doctors in Divinity, Cathedral Dignitaries and Bishops' Chaplains. 1903 Church Times 11 Dec. 748/4 A deacon is entitled, like any other clergyman, to wear the broad black tippet, or scarf, over his surplice. 3. a. A broad strip of silk, gauze, or other fine material, worn hung loosely over the shoulders or otherwise as an ornamental accessory to the costume. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for head or neck or body > [noun] > scarf tippetc1300 scarf1560 1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams xciv. sig. Bviii^v When do mothers fray their babes most from duggs. When they put on blacke scarfs, & go lyke beare buggs. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Giv They must haue their silk scarffes cast about their faces & fluttering in the winde with great tassels at euery end, either of gold, siluer or silk. a1592 R. Greene Mamillia (1593) ii. sig. H^v Needlesse noughts, as crisps, and scarphes worne Alla Morisco. a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. A7^v They that shalbe actors in this Massacre, Shall..tye white linnen scarfes about their armes. 1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood Epigram xxvii. sig. C Why in the stop-throate fashion doth he go, With Scarfe about his necke? Hat without band? a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 285 Murrellus and Flauius, for pulling Scarffes off Cæsars Images, are put to silence. View more context for this quotation 1624 Skelton's E. Rummyng Prol. 82 Scarfs, feathers, and swords, And thin bodkin-beards. 1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 1st Pt. i. 1 Trickt in skarffe and feather. 1713 London Gaz. No. 5173/4 A black Gause Scarf;..a blue Lustring-Scarf with a Gause Body. 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) IV. xlii. 260 What a pretty shew they will make, with their white hoods, white gowns, white petticoats, white scarves! 1766 London Mag. July 335 The new thing called a Scarf, with its depending tassels, looks so much like an advertisement that if the place of abode was added, there is no doubt, but that it would draw in custom. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) iv. 38 Two young ladies in scarfs and feathers. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 10 A purple scarf, at either end whereof There swung an apple of the purest gold, Sway'd round about him. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. Proem 4 His..cap, with its..long hanging strip of drapery, to serve as a scarf in case of need. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iv, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 191 Dressed in a Tyrian scarf with a fringe of broidery gay. †b. used as a bandage for the eyes, or a veil. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > [noun] > anything obstructing sight > blindfold scarf1587 muffler1600 bumble1623 bandeau1861 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > veil > material used as a veil netOE scarf1587 dupatta1615 orhni1678 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xx. 361 His [sc. God's] spiritual nature, which we cannot possibly comprehend, but as it were through a glasse, or a scarf. 1611 G. Chapman May-day ii. i. 28 My assurance is that Cupid will take the scarfe from his owne eyes and hoodwinke the old buzzard. 1641 R. Carpenter Experience, Hist., & Divinitie ii. vii. 170 And if any thing slip under the rehearsall, it is to be a scarff over the face, and to shew, the griefe could not be expressed. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 232 They have but a maske or scarfe over their faces. c. figurative and in extended use. ΚΠ ?1614 W. Drummond Sextain: Sith gone is my Delight in Poems Among the lesser lights as is the Moone, Blushing through scarfe of clouds on Latmos Mountaine. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 82 And with each end of thy blew bowe do'st crowne My boskie acres, and my vnshrubd downe, Rich scarph to my proud earth. a1822 P. B. Shelley Triumph of Life in Posthumous Poems (1824) 88 Still before me on the dusky grass, Iris her many-coloured scarf had drawn. 1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxvii. 373 The moon had risen slowly, breaking through a rent scarf of cloud that barred her solemn, white disc. 1892 R. L. Stevenson Across Plains ii. 89 The fogs are in possession of the lower levels; they crawl in scarves among the sandhills. d. spec. The scarf of black crape or silk worn over the shoulder by mourners at funerals. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for shoulders > scarf worn by mourners scarf1739 1739 Will in J. O. Payne Rec. Eng. Catholics (1889) 53 No scarves, gloves, nor hat-bands. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Morte d'Arthur in Poems (new ed.) II. 13 A dusky barge, Dark as a funeral scarf from stem to stern. 1850 G. J. French Tippets 8 (note) The modern custom of wearing at funerals both a hatband and a scarf over the shoulder, curiously marks the extravagance which has crept into such ceremonies. e. A band of warm and soft material worn round the neck in cold weather; = comforter n. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > scarf or wrap > as protection from cold muffler1594 comforter1823 scarf1823 neck shawl1828 comfortable1835 neck warmer1852 neck-comforter1853 muffeteea1890 1823 C. Mathews Let. 17 Feb. in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1839) III. 368 And also two scarfs, I think they are called. 1844 J. Gaugain Lady's Assistant II. Accomp. 37 Warm Crochet Scarf. Worked in eight-ply Berlin wool. f. A necktie or cravat that more or less covers the bosom of the shirt. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > neck-tie or cravat > types of scarf1865 squeeze1877 club tie1897 1865 J. Morley Mod. Characteristics 79 Gorgeous scarves which have been long superseded by white ties. 1886 C. E. Pascoe London of To-day (ed. 3) xli. 355 Most gentlemen are now content with the made-up scarves of all sizes, colours, and materials, which [etc.]. g. (See quot.) ΚΠ 1910 Encycl. Brit. VII. 277/2 Scarf is a kind of dhootie made usually with a taped or corded border. †4. A sling for an ailing limb. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical supports > [noun] > sling scarf1598 mitella1661 string1718 sling1720 suspensorium1771 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 29/2 He must weare his arme before on his breste in a scarfe. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) v. ii. 20 Oh my deere Orlando, how it greeues me to see thee weare thy heart in a scarfe. 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. v. 14 Lesly..carried his foot in a Scarf for a wound he had receiv'd at Buckstoho. 1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 165 The arm must be carried in a Scarf. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ix, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 271 His wounded arm was supported by a scarf, or sling of crimson silk. 5. Heraldry. a. = scarp n.¹ ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > charge of simplest or commonest kind > band crossing shield diagonally > running from top right to bottom left > of half width scarp1562 scarf1688 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory i. 30/1 He beareth Argent, a Scarpe Purpure, of some termed a Scarf. 1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Bend The bend-sinister is subdivided into the scarf, or scarp, and the battoon. a1823 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XV. 431 The Bend sinister consists of similar lines drawn in an opposite direction from the sinister chief to the dexter base of the shield. Its diminutive is the scarf occupying one half of its breadth. b. = banderole n. 2a. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > other heraldic representations > [noun] > banderole banderole1596 scarf1780 1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. (Gloss.) Scarf, a small ecclesiastical banner, hanging down from the top of a crosier. †6. A scroll or plate bearing an inscription. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > material to write on > [noun] > scroll of roll?c1225 scrow?c1225 scroll14.. scarf1655 rotulet1833 volumen1851 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. xi. 238 The Vault thus prepared, a scarfe of lead was provided some two foot long,..therein to make an inscription. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. scarf-end n. ΚΠ 1868 G. M. Hopkins Note-bks. & Papers (1937) 115 Fine afternoon with snow-white flying scarf-ends in the clouds. scarf-maker n. ΚΠ 1725 London Gaz. No. 6403/4 Anne Howard,..Scarf-maker. scarf-tie n. ΚΠ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 425 In an oatmeal sporting suit.., tony buff shirt, shepherd's plaid Saint Andrew's cross scarftie. 1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 16 June 9- c/5 (advt.) This dress is a breeze—buttons up one side to the flutter of a scarf tie. scarf-veil n. ΚΠ 1907 Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 4/3 A useful scarf-veil. b. scarf-like adj. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escharpeux,..scarfe-like. 1852 Meanderings of Memory I. 109 Scarf-like and ethereally slight. 1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour iv. 67 Suspended from a baudrick, or scarf-like shoulder-belt, this sword reached from the hollow of the back to about the middle of the thigh. C2. scarf cloak n. a light narrow cloak or tippet; scarf-loom, a loom for weaving figured fabrics of moderate breadth (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cloak, mantle, or cape > types of > other cowlc961 rocheta1325 dud1355 paenulaa1400 jornay1495 jornet1502 glaudkin1518 paludament1543 mantoon1623 mantoplicee1672 bavaroy1713 roquelaure1716 poncho1717 manteel1733 pelerine1744 mat1773 wrap-rascal1796 benish1797 nabob1803 scarf cloak1804 ruana1814 witzchoura1823 all-rounder1837 pardessus1843 visitec1847 tilma1851 talma1852 sontag1859 Inverness cape1865 dolman1872 Niçois1873 Mother Hubbard1877 1804 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 4 Aug. 2/3 Scarf cloaks of leno or worked muslin over coloured silks, are universally worn. † scarf-man n. Obsolete a clergyman of rank entitling him to wear a scarf. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > of rank to wear scarf scarf-officer1710 scarf-man1711 1711 P. H. Impartial View Two Late Parl. 23 The inferior Priests and Deacons, and all under the Degree of Scarf Men were made to understand. † scarf-officer n. Obsolete an officer who is entitled to wear a scarf. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > other clergy > [noun] > of rank to wear scarf scarf-officer1710 scarf-man1711 1710–11 J. Addison Spectator No. 21. ¶2 We may divide the Clergy into Generals, Field-Officers, and Subalterns. Among the first we may reckon Bishops, Deans, and Arch-Deacons. Among the second are Doctors of Divinity, Prebendaries, and all that wear Scarfs... It is found that there has been a great Exceeding of late Years in the Second Division, several Brevets having been granted for the converting of Subalterns into Scarf-Officers. scarf-pin n. a pin for fastening a scarf, or worn for ornament in a scarf (sense 3f). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > brooch or pin > [noun] > worn on specific article of clothing tasselc1330 shirt pin1775 tie-pin1780 prop1850 scarf-pin1859 spark-prop1879 1859 Habits Good Society (new ed.) iii. 142 A scarf-pin which is neither large nor showy. scarf-ring n. a ring for holding a scarf (sense 3f) in position. Draft additions 1993 Also, a square piece of material worn tied (usually folded) round the head; = square n. 10e. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > head-cloth or -scarf headclothOE head-lineOE headrailOE head-kerchief1378 kercherc1380 coverchiefc1386 voluperc1386 kerchiefa1400 curch1447 amict1480 head-kercher1556 orhni1678 headscarf1688 handkerchiefa1774 kopdoek1911 scarf1917 1917 Harrods Gen. Catal. 1420 (caption) Chiffon Motor Scarf, wide hem-stitched border..in all the latest shades. 4/6. 1959 Encounter Oct. 32/2 A voile scarf tied babushka-style. 1978 J. Morris Oxford (rev. ed.) ii. ii. 15 Despondent women look in with Paisley scarves on their heads, on their way to scrub floors or clean office desks. 1988 N. Lowndes Chekago iv. 184 Marina looks silly in that pill-box hat... Why couldn't she have worn a scarf? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scarfn.² Brit. /skɑːf/, U.S. /skɑrf/ Forms: Also Middle English scarffe, 1500s skarfe, 1700s scarfe, 1700s–1800s scarph, 1800s skerf. Etymology: Words of related form and identical meaning (chiefly belonging to the nautical vocabulary) are found in several modern languages, but recorded much later than in English: French écart ( < escarf) a scarf, verbal noun < écarver* ( < escarver) to scarf; Spanish escarba, Portuguese escarva* a scarf; Dutch scherf a scarf, verscherven (whence German verscherben) to scarf; Swedish skarf, Norwegian skarv piece added to lengthen a board or a garment, also the joint or seam by which this is effected; Swedish skarfva, Norwegian skarva, skjerva to lengthen by joining or sewing on an additional piece (Danish has in this sense skarre, the relation of which to the Swedish form is obscure). The relation of these words to each other and to the English noun and verb is uncertain. The fact that the Swedish words are not, like those in the other languages, exclusively technical, but have a wider meaning, seems to afford a slight presumption in favour of Scandinavian as the ultimate source. But even assuming this, it remains doubtful whether the English noun comes from Swedish (or some other Scandinavian dialect) directly or through the medium of Old French escarf. The Swedish skarf* has commonly been referred to the Germanic root skerƀ-, skarƀ-, represented by Old English scearfian* (= Old High German scarpôn, German scharben) to cut into shreds, Old English sceorfan strong verb, to gnaw, bite, scarify, Dutch scherf (= Old High German scirbi, German scherbe) potsherd; but affinity in meaning seems wanting. 1. a. Carpentry and Shipbuilding. A joint by which two timbers are connected longitudinally into a continuous piece, the ends being halved, notched, or cut away so as to fit into each other with mutual overlapping. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > means of fitting together > types of joint indenting1382 scarf1497 swallowtail1548 dovetail1565 mortise-piece1577 tenon and mortise1610 culver-tail1616 mortise and tenon1631 finger joint1657 breaking joint1663 meeting1663 mitre1665 scarfing1671 heading joint1773 dovetail-joint1776 butting joint1803 bevel-joint1823 lap-joint1823 lapped mitre1825 mitre dovetail1847 bridle joint1860 mortise1875 sypher-joint1875 keyed mitre1876 tongue-and-groove1882 saddle joint1948 1497 [see scarf-timber n. at Compounds]. 1580 H. Smith in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 475 Wee halled a ground to stoppe a leake, which we found to be in the skarfe afore. 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 8 Next your Nauell timbers, and bind them all with sixe foote Skarfe at the least. 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions 47 The Scarfs of her Keel and Stern. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Apron The scarf thereof should be at some distance from that of the stern. 1779 W. Barnard in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 70 108 Pl. 3 Beams of Fir 12 inches square, put across in halves, with 12 feet scarph. 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 280 In each piece of timber to be joined, the parts of the joints that come in contact are called scarfs. 1842 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 5 362/1 The scarf of the poles is shown in Fig. 3. 1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. viii. 109 The ends of these planks are supported on the frames, adjacent ones being formed into a scarph. †b. Shipbuilding. The overlapping of adjacent timbers in a ship's frame, in order to secure continuity of strength at the joints. Phrase, to give scarf. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > methods of joining timbers scarf1711 boxing1805 1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 39 Let the Top~timber be placed..that they may give Scarf to the Port~holes. 1754 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation at Scarf But when the ends of the two pieces [of timber] are cut square and put together, they are said to butt to one another; and when another piece is laid upon, and fastened to both..this is called scarphing the timbers; and half the piece which fastens the two timbers together is reckoned the length of the scarf. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 379/2 These represent the length and scarf of the several timbers in the midship frame. 1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. Explan. Terms 141 The lower..riders..fay alongside the floor riders, and give scarph above them. 2. Metal-working. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1843 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. I. 220 In smith's work likewise, the joinings are called scarfs... The scarfs required for the shut, are made by first upsetting or thickening the iron... It is next rudely tapered off. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Scarf, the flattened or chamfered edges of iron prepared for welding. 1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 297/2 The point of the scarf is farthest into the fire. Compounds scarf-joint n. = senses 1, 2. Π 1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §252 The four stones..were..to be united to each other by Hook-Scarf-Joints. 1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) I. 329/1 The common scarf joint..is made by merely halving each piece of timber for a certain length, and then bolting or strapping the two pieces together. 1919 S. F. Walker Electr. Mining Machinery xx. 154 A scarf joint is..good if it is well made and very carefully bound. 1948 F. Wightman Wind is Free ii. 33 It had to be hoisted with a block & tackle on sheerpoles to bring it up to where its scarph joint fitted into the one cut on the forward end of the keel timber. scarf-jointing n. the process of joining timbers by means of a scarf. Π 1907 Proc. Soc. Antiq. 14 Feb. 349 The method of construction is that known technically as scarf-jointing. † scarf-timber n. Obsolete timber in short lengths for scarfing. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > timber in pieces > in short lengths for scarfing scarf-timber1497 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 312 Certeyn Scarffe Tymbre price—viij^s vj^d. scarf-weld n. (see quot. 1882). Π 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Scarf-weld, a peculiar joint made in welding two pieces of metal, as iron, together. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † scarfn.³ Etymology: Alteration of scarp n.² Military. = scarp n.² ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > side of ditch nearest to parapet scarp1589 scarf1591 escarp1688 escarpment1802 scarpment1861 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Coraxa entre dos muros A scarfe between wals, Musculus. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 126 These Caualleres..haue also their Scarphe or Alambor [Sp. alambor declivity of a ditch]. 1603 Court Roll in Athenæum 21 Nov. (1885) 668/3 Euerie man shall make vpe sufficiently all the Scarfes betwixt the milne & Restone Inges betwene this & Christmas next. 1645 Enchir. Fortif. 6 The Talud, or Scarfe, of the outside of the Rampart. 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso ii. xlii. 297 Ditches, Ravelins, Scarfes, & Counter-scarfes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021). scarfn.⁴ Brit. /skɑːf/, U.S. /skɑrf/ Forms: Also 1600s, 1800s, scarfe, 1800s scarff; and see scart n.¹ Etymology: < Old Norse skarf-r, Norwegian, Swedish skarf. Orkney and Shetland dialect. A cormorant or a shag. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Phalacrocoracidae > member of (cormorant) cormorantc1320 plungeon1480 gormaw?a1513 scart1513 sea-coot1575 sea-crow1579 scrath16.. sea-raven1611 sea-drake1632 storta1661 scarf1668 diver1766 Isle of Wight parson1806 the world > animals > birds > order Pelecaniformes > [noun] > family Phalacrocoracidae > phalacrocorax aristotelis (shag) shag1566 scarf1668 shag pelican1785 shag cormorant1826 1668 F. Jessop in J. Ray et al. Philos. Lett. (1718) 38 I have procured the Skin of a great Bird which he that gave it me call'd a Scarfe. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xiii. 107 The sussing of Kitnings, clamring of Scarfes, whimpring of Fullmarts. 1744 T. Preston in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 43 61 (2) Whaps, Toists,..Plovers, Scarfs, &c. 1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 300 The Shag (pelecanus graculus..), so well known by the name of Scarf, is very frequently seen. 1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney iii. i. 300 The Cormorant..our great Scarf, is a species not so numerous as the former. 1868 D. Gorrie Summers & Winters in Orkneys v. 153 A lazy scarff here and there raised himself up at length over the surface. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scarfn.⁵ Brit. /skɑːf/, U.S. /skɑrf/ Etymology: Probably < scarf n.² 1. Whaling A longitudinal cut made in a whale's body. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > [noun] > cut made in whale scarf1851 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxvii. 339 As the blubber in one strip uniformly peels off along the line called the ‘scarf’. 1874 C. M. Scammon Marine Mammals N. Amer. 63 A scarf is cut along the body and through the blubber, to which one end of a tackle is hooked. 2. Forestry. A V-shaped incision cut in a trunk during felling, to govern the direction in which the tree is to fall; also, the sloping surface left by such an incision. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > felling trees > cut in tree kerfc1420 scarf1863 undercut1883 fall notch1893 1863 8th Ann. Rep. Maine Board Agric. i. 36 The bark of the stock opposite the scarf with a thin sliver of wood is cut down. 1887 J. D. Billings Hardtack & Coffee (1888) 180 When an army first went into camp trees were cut with the scarf two or three feet above the ground. 1903 R. J. Clow Pillar of Salt iii. 55 It meant a bit of work to cut down a tree seven feet in diameter... Stello cut in the inside scarf and I put in the back chip. 1926 K. S. Prichard Working Bullocks xxxii. 296 Half-dozen men..stood on their rough-barked logs... The scarf showed ruddy as a wound in the logs. 1962 J. N. Winburne Dict. Agric. 673/1 Scarf,..the beveled cut on a log or stump which results from undercutting a tree in felling. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scarfn.⁶ Brit. /skɑːf/, U.S. /skɑrf/ Etymology: Variant of scoff n.² U.S. slang. = scoff n.² ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > [noun] meateOE eatOE foodOE fodderOE dietc1230 gista1290 victual1303 victualsa1375 preya1382 feedinga1398 pasturea1398 viancea1400 viandsc1400 livingc1405 meatingc1425 vitalyc1440 vianda1450 cates1461 vivers1536 viandry1542 viander1543 gut-matter1549 peck1567 belly-cheer1579 appast1580 manchet1583 chat1584 belly-metal1590 repasture1598 cibaries1599 belly-timber1607 belly-cheat1608 peckage1610 victuallage1622 keeping1644 vivresa1650 crib1652 prog1655 grub1659 beef1661 fooding1663 teething1673 eatablea1687 sunket1686 yam1788 chow-chow1795 keep1801 feed1818 grubbing1819 patter1824 ninyam1826 nyam1828 grubbery1831 tack1834 kai1845 mungaree1846 scoff1846 foodstuff1847 chuck1850 muckamuck1852 tuck1857 tucker1858 hash1865 nosh1873 jock1879 cake flour1881 chow1886 nosebag1888 stodge1890 food aid1900 tackle1900 munga1907 scarf1932 grubber1959 1932 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 9 Dec. 31/5 Scarf, food. 1944 D. Burley Orig. Handbk. Harlem Jive 81 ‘Pick up on the scoff, cherub.’.. The ‘scoff’ or ‘scarf’ in the above simple statement is dinner food, meals. 1961 F. J. Rigney & L. D. Smith Real Bohemia p. xvi Scarf, food; eat, believed to have come from a French chef, Scarfannelli. 1973 L. Snelling Heresy ii. iv. 89 How's for a bit of scarf, my tummy's anguished. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1982; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scarfv.¹ Brit. /skɑːf/, U.S. /skɑrf/ Forms: Also 1600s scarfe, skarfe, 1800s skarf. Etymology: < scarf n.¹ 1. a. transitive. To clothe, cover, or wrap with or as with a scarf or scarves; to invest with a scarf; †to blindfold. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > prevent from seeing [verb (transitive)] > blindfold or cover eyes blindfold?c1225 to stop (a person's) eyes or sightc1380 enclose1477 silec1500 hoodwink1562 muffle1573 scarf1598 bluff1673 to seal (a person's) eyes or ears1700 bonnet1828 blink1846 occlude1921 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > scarf or sash scarf1598 sasha1797 bescarf1826 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > as with garment > specific overshrouda1522 enveil1555 scarf1598 bemantle1620 superinvest1624 buskin1795 apron1865 1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. vi. 46 The sturdy Plough-man doth the soldier see, All scarfed with pide colours to the knee. 1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age ii. ii. C 3 Why doth Adonis..shun this Iuory girdle of my armes? To be thus scarft the dreadfull God of warre Would giue me conquered kingdomes. 1632 T. Hawkins tr. P. Matthieu Vnhappy Prosperitie 95 Claudius caused that of Augustus to be taken from the Theater of the Gladiators, that it might not ever be present at murther, or be alwayes scarfed. a1634 J. Day Peregrinatio Scholastica (Stowe 3150) f. 8^v Slitely shadow'de or scarft w^th a thin tinsell, or Tirean vaile. 1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xix. 373 Bare Of foot, of limb, scarfed only round the loins. 1849 M. Arnold Resignation 5 Warriors..Scarf'd with the cross. 1894 G. Du Maurier Trilby (1895) vi. 280 Our three friends..duly scarfed and scarfpinned [etc.]. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. ii. 48 Come, seeling Night, Skarfe vp the tender Eye of pittifull Day. View more context for this quotation 1630 W. Drummond Flowres of Sion (rev. ed.) 18 Scarff'd in a rosie Cloud, Hee doth ascend the Aire. a1639 T. Dekker et al. Witch of Edmonton (1658) ii. ii. 23 Blushing Adonis scarft in modesties. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision I. xxxiii. 147 Others skarf'd in rugged folds of ice. 1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth xxxi. 309 The great sun is still shining, though it be scarfed by earthly vapours. 1897 F. Thompson New Poems 112 Who scarfed her with the morning? 2. To wrap (a garment) about or around a person in the manner of a scarf. Also transferred. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > wrap or envelop > in manner of a scarf scarf1604 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > wrap (a wrapping) lapa1300 wrapc1400 scarf1604 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 14 Vp from my Cabin, My sea-gowne scarft about me in the darke Gropt I to find out them. View more context for this quotation 1613 T. Heywood Siluer Age iii. sig. I3^v My fingers Il'e intangle in these curles, And scarfe my Iuory arme about thy necke. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc ix. 256 On the earth the chieftain slept, His mantle scarft around him. 1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. II. 252 They..had a large mantle of gray checquered cloth scarft round them. †3. To bind up (wounds) with, or as with a scarf; ? to place (a limb) in a sling. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > treat by topical applications [verb (transitive)] > bandage bindc1175 scarf1601 fast1618 band1700 roll1746 fetter1756 bandage1774 to strap up1843 the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatment by topical applications > treat by topical applications [verb (transitive)] > place in sling scarf1601 1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. 161 Wee scarifie them, we scarfe them not. 1605 A. Wotton Answere Popish Pamphlet 25 Let them shift themselues, as they list, and skarfe their soares, according to their fancies. 1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xliv. 1) 338 Had it been fit for him to scarfe their bones before they were set? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scarfv.² Brit. /skɑːf/, U.S. /skɑrf/ Forms: Also 1600s scarfe, scarff, skarf, 1700s– scarph. Etymology: < scarf n.² 1. a. transitive. To join by a scarf-joint. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > build or construct with wood [verb (transitive)] > join > with specific joint or method mortisea1450 culver-tail1616 scarf1627 tenon1652 dovetail1657 cock1663 shoot?1677 knee1711 indent1741 mitre1753 halve1804 box1815 tongue1823 sypher1841 cog1858 butt joint1859 jag1894 lap-join1968 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ii. 3 Those are skarfed into the ground timbers. 1643 T. Horn & J. Robotham tr. J. A. Comenius Gate Lang. Unlocked (ed. 6) xlviii. §530 The Joyner plaineth plankes..he skarfeth and ioyneth them close with culver-tailes. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) Thus they say the Stem of a Ship is Scarfed into her Keel; and they imply by it, That the two Peices are shaped away slanting, so as to join with one another close and even. 1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §42 Timbers, properly scarphed together. 1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 285/1 Tye-beams..were formed almost wholly of short lengths, averaging not more than 20 feet, lapped and scarfed. 1849 H. W. Longfellow Building of Ship in Seaside & Fireside 15 The keel of oak for a noble ship, Scarfed and bolted. 1860 Encycl. Brit. XX. 186/1 The several pieces are scarphed together. 1976 Yankee Apr. 109/1 He forced me to scarph the keel timbers in watertight sections. b. (See quot. 1754.) ΚΠ 1754 M. Murray Treat. Ship-building & Navigation ii. v. 189 But when the ends of the two pieces [of timber] are cut square and put together, they are said to butt to one another; and when another piece is laid upon, and fastened to both..this is called scarphing the timbers; and half the piece which fastens the two timbers together is reckoned the length of the scarf. 2. Metal-working. To bevel or flatten (the ends or edges of the pieces of metal to be welded). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > inclination > incline [verb (transitive)] > bevel cant1542 splay1598 chamfret1611 cipher1674 bevel1678 bezel1680 chamfer1688 champer1788 scarf1831 to wash off1833 splay1879 1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 188 The extremities of each bar are scarfed. 1861 W. Fairbairn Iron 211 Mr. Bertram scarfs the edges of the plates, places them together [etc.]. 1884 C. G. W. Lock Workshop Receipts 3rd Ser. 303/1 Scarf it for welding. 3. intransitive. To be joined with a scarf. Const. to. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > work with wood [verb (intransitive)] > join or do work of joiner > be joined with specific joint mitre1764 scarf1794 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 35 The inner end of the boom, to which it scarfs with a tongue. 1860 Encycl. Brit. XX. 185/2 The foremost end of the keelson scarphs to the stemson. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022). scarfv.³ Brit. /skɑːf/, U.S. /skɑrf/ Etymology: < scarf n.⁵ 1. transitive. Whaling. To make a ‘scarf’ or incision in the blubber of (a whale). Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > cutting up whale or seal > cut up whale or seal [verb (transitive)] > cut up whale or seal flench1814 to cut in1839 scarf1851 spade1887 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxvii. 340 The heavers singing, the blubber-room gentlemen coiling, the mates scarfing, the ship straining, and all hands swearing occasionally. 1887 G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Hist. & Methods II. 278/1 The second mate ‘scarfs’, or cuts the body blubber. 2. New Zealand. Forestry. To cut a scarf in (timber). Also back-scarf, belly-scarf (see quot. 1928). Cf. scarf n.⁵ ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > lumber [verb (intransitive)] > make cut or notch scarf1899 1899 J. Bell In Shadow of Bush xiv. 83 The smaller trees..had been ‘scarfed’, or cut partly through in readiness, and skilfully, so that each, when struck, might again in its turn strike and bring down another. 1904 ‘G. B. Lancaster’ Sons o' Men 164 He..scarfed the timber for the saw. 1928 P. T. Kenway Pioneering in Poverty Bay v. 38 He will ‘belly-scarf’ and ‘back-scarf’ the lot, that is to say he will cut about a third through on both the lower and higher sides. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). scarfv.⁴ Brit. /skɑːf/, U.S. /skɑrf/ Etymology: Variant of scoff v.² U.S. slang. transitive and intransitive = scoff v.² 1. Also with up and down. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (intransitive)] eatc825 to break breadeOE baitc1386 feeda1387 to take one's repast?1490 to take repast1517 repast1520 peck?1536 diet1566 meat1573 victual1577 graze1579 manger1609 to craw it1708 grub1725 scoff1798 browse1818 provender1819 muckamuck1853 to put on the nosebag1874 refect1882 restaurate1882 nosh1892 tucker1903 to muck in1919 scarf1960 snack1972 1960 R. G. Reisner Jazz Titans 164 Scarf, eat. 1968 C. Armstrong Balloon Man viii. 98 They don't want to faint from hunger, so..they scarf up what they call a bite before they go. 1974 Black World June 77/1 King Dust would sit there, ‘scarfing’, as he called it, in silence. 1975 High Times Dec. 80/3 I can pick jimsonweed and chop it up and scarf it down as well as the next guy. 1976 R. Condon Whisper of Axe ii. xviii. 265 Let's..scarf up some of that osso bucco. 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