Chest vs Cauf - What's the difference?
chest | cauf |
A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.
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*:But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶.
(lb) A coffin.
The place in which public money is kept; a treasury.
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A chest of drawers.
(senseid)(lb) The portion of the front of the human body from the base of the neck to the top of the abdomen; the thorax. Also the analogous area in other animals.
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#A hit or blow made with one's chest.
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To hit with one's chest (front of one's body)
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To deposit in a chest.
(obsolete) To place in a coffin.
* Bible, Genesis 1. 26
A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
* 1926 : Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, Reports , volume 2,
''Cauf , a little trunk or chest with holes in it, wherein Fishermen keep Fish alive in the water, ready for use. * “
* 1845 : Charles Rogers, Tom Treddlehoyle’s Thowts, Joakes, an Smiles for Midsummer Day ,
CAUF, CAUVES. — Common pronunciation of Calf, Calves: as “I’d been to serve the cauves;” “She’s gotten a quee cauf[.” English terms with multiple etymologies ----
As nouns the difference between chest and cauf
is that chest is a box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid or chest can be debate; quarrel; strife; enmity while cauf is a chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water or cauf can be (calf).As a verb chest
is to hit with one's chest (front of one's body).chest
English
{{ picdic , image=Chest.jpg , width=310 , detail1= , detail2= }}Etymology 1
From (etyl) cheste, chiste, from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (the thorax) breast * (box) trunkDerived terms
* bad chest * chest cavity * chest cold * chestless * chestlike * chest of drawers * chest pass * chestnut * chest wall * chesty * get off one’s chest * hope chest * keep one's cards close to one's chest * treasure chest * war chestVerb
(en verb)citation, page= , passage=Pedersen fed Kalinic in West Brom's defensive third and his chested lay-off was met on the burst by the Canadian who pelted by Tamas and smashed the ball into the top of Myhill's net. }}
- He dieth and is chested .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) cheste, cheeste, cheaste, from (etyl) .Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----cauf
English
Etymology 1
Originally a misspelling of , of which (term) remains a homophone. (rfimage)Noun
(cauves)unknown page(Executive Committee)
- The live fish is now kept in the cauves until sold for consumption in the home-country or abroad.
References
* Glossographia; or, A Dictionary Interpreting the Hard Words of Whatsoever Language, Now Used in Our Refined English Tongue'', by (1662?; in 1670 Ed.)''Cauf , a little trunk or chest with holes in it, wherein Fishermen keep Fish alive in the water, ready for use. * “
†cauf]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989
Etymology 2
Phonetic respelling.Noun
(cauves)pages 40–41
- An estimate at traffick hez been made be sum foaks, at wor set ta tack noatis, an it appear’d, bit average a wun month, thear wor enter’d Pogmoor an Hickam, fifteen wheelbarras, nine turnap rowlers, eighteen cauves , six sither grinders, wun wattar barril, nine haulin-horses, two pol’d cahs, three pair a cuts, wun hearse, sixteen dogs, three sheep, fourteen coil-carts, thurty mules, twenty-five geese, an three pigs.
References
* Publications of the English Dialect Society, volume 52 (1886),page 26]
CAUF, CAUVES. — Common pronunciation of Calf, Calves: as “I’d been to serve the cauves;” “She’s gotten a quee cauf[.” English terms with multiple etymologies ----