kerf

Example Sentences

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Don’t forget the all-important drip kerf under the crown overhang!

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2023

We learn the word for the space that the saw eats up in the wood — kerf — and how to operate circular saws, routers, drills and drivers.

From Washington Post • Sep. 28, 2022

Crowns are supposed to overhang the chimney and have a drip kerf on the underside of the overhang.

From Washington Post • Jan. 8, 2019

Michel and his sextant navigated a course straight as the kerf from a sawmill blade.

From Time Magazine Archive

I see new words that sound cool like dado and kerf and tenon and mortise.

From "Mockingbird" by Kathryn Erskine