Usually means: Metal shavings from machining processes.
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  3. swarf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. swarf: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  16. swarf: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
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Definitions from Wiktionary (swarf)

noun:  (uncountable) The waste chips or shavings from an abrasive activity, such as metalworking, a saw cutting wood, or the use of a grindstone or whetstone.
noun:  (countable) A particular waste chip or shaving.
verb:  (transitive) To grind down.
verb:  (intransitive, Scotland, obsolete) To grow languid; to faint.
noun:  (obsolete) A faint or swoon.

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