Corf

[Footnote 1: A corf is a large basket used for carrying coals or other minerals in a mine.] ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1863)

"Or perhaps a half-corf, such as this wee one is carrying." ❋ Follett, Ken (1995)

"You weigh a good deal less than a corf full of coal," he said with a smile. ❋ Follett, Ken (1995)

She was barefoot and carried on her back a corf half full of coal. ❋ Follett, Ken (1995)

The miner stopped the girl and one of his women lifted the corf. ❋ Follett, Ken (1995)

The miner, seemingly expecting this, caught her, and she felt the weight lifted from her back as the woman removed the corf. ❋ Follett, Ken (1995)

Although her child was only a week or so old, the poor woman was carrying a full corf. ❋ Follett, Ken (1995)

Jen lifted Wullie and slung him over her shoulder: his weight was nothing to a woman who could carry a full corf of coal up these stairs twenty times in a fifteen-hour shift. ❋ Follett, Ken (1995)

All they could suggest was corf sone which my mother took in the form of tablets and injections in her neck. ❋ CHANG, JUNG (1991)

"Yes, 'e' as got a corf," said Emily, watching Maggie with all her eyes. ❋ Hugh Walpole (1912)

Our skipper had a bad leg, so as I was going aboard for some corf mixture, he just arst me to get him a drop of something to rub in. ❋ Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1902)

Well, the skipper here gives me a bottle of red liniment for our skipper's leg, and a big bottle of corf mixture for me, but by mistake I drinks the liniment and gave the corf mixture to our skipper to rub in his leg. ❋ Wilfred Thomason Grenfell (1902)

_Half-penny Herald_, to the tune of three-and-eightpence a day, the hollow chest grew hollower, and he developed a "corf." ❋ Richard Dehan (1897)

` Nay, 'says your father, and him all the time suff'rin' from a norful corf, -- ` nay, 'he says, ` don't you have it took off, my man,' he says; and I says I wouldn't, for o 'course I didn't want to go about like a pegtop; and he sets to and makes it right. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)

Hazels are cultivated not only for the nuts, but for corf-rods, [1] hoops, fencing, &c., and hazel-charcoal, like beech-charcoal, is used for crayons. ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1863)

But his highest ambition was to be taken on at the colliery where his father worked; and he shortly joined his elder brother James there as a “corf-bitter,” or ❋ Samuel Smiles (1858)

Our main branches of iron industry grew up at places like Wednesbury, in South Staffordshire, "where there being but little earth lying over the measure of coal, the workmen rid off the earth and dig the coal under their feet, and carry it out in wheelbarrows, there being no need for windlass, rope, or corf." [ ❋ William Stanley Jevons (1865)