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Swarf vs Kerf - What's the difference?

swarf | kerf |

Kerf is a related term of swarf.



As nouns the difference between swarf and kerf

is that swarf is the waste chips or shavings from metalworking or a saw cutting wood while kerf is the groove or slit created by cutting a workpiece; an incision.

As verbs the difference between swarf and kerf

is that swarf is to grow languid; to faint while kerf is to cut a piece of wood or other material with several kerfs to allow it to be bent.

swarf

English

Noun

(-)
  • the waste chips or shavings from metalworking or a saw cutting wood
  • * 1979 , Cormac McCarthy, Suttree , Random House, p.95:
    • Harrogate looked at the ground. A black swarf packed with small parts in a greasy mosaic.
  • the grit worn away by use of a grindstone or whetstone, being particles of the material being cut and of the cutting stone itself

    • Usage notes

    Infrequently used after the 19th century; primarily in technical settings.

    Related terms

    * swerve

    See also

    * grind * grinder * grindstone * grit * hone * metalwork * smith * whet * whetstone

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) To grow languid; to faint.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • to swarf for very hunger

    References

    kerf

    English

    Noun

    (kerfs)
  • The groove or slit created by cutting a workpiece; an incision.
  • *
  • The width of the groove made while cutting.
  • *1991 , , January issue, page 63, "Thin-kerf blades", by Rosario Capotostro
  • *:Sawing with a thin-kerf blade produces a kerf' that's 1/2 to 1/3 the size of a standard blade ' kerf .
  • Distance between diverging saw teeth

    • Related terms

    * carve * swarf

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cut a piece of wood or other material with several kerfs to allow it to be bent.

    • References

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