Usually means: Width of material removed by cutting.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. kerf: Merriam-Webster
  2. kerf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. kerf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. kerf: Collins English Dictionary
  5. kerf: Wordnik
  6. kerf: Wiktionary
  7. kerf: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. kerf: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. kerf: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Kerf, kerf: Dictionary.com
  11. Kerf (disambiguation), Kerf: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Kerf: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. kerf: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. kerf: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  15. Kerf: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. kerf: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. kerf: FreeDictionary.org
  18. kerf: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. kerf: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. kerf: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. kerf: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. kerf: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. KERF: Acronym Finder
  2. kerf: A Word A Day

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  3. KERF: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  4. Woodworking Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Kerf: Glossary of Woodworking Terms

(Note: See kerfed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (kerf)

noun:  (now rare) The act of cutting or carving something; a stroke or slice.
noun:  The groove or slit created by cutting or sawing something; an incision.
noun:  The portion or quantity (e.g. of wood, hay, turf, wool, etc.) removed or cut off in a given stroke.
noun:  The distance between diverging saw teeth.
noun:  The flattened, cut-off end of a branch or tree; a stump or sawn-off cross-section.
verb:  To cut a piece of wood or other material with several kerfs to allow it to be bent.

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