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Definition of 'cauf'

English

Etymology 1

Originally a misspelling of , of which (term) remains a homophone. (rfimage)

Noun

(cauves)
  • A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
  • * 1926 : Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, Reports , volume 2, 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)
  • * 1845 : Charles Rogers, Tom Treddlehoyle’s Thowts, Joakes, an Smiles for Midsummer Day , 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 ----

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