Scarf | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Scārf, n.

noun

n. [Dan. skiärf, Sw. skärp, Prov. Ger. schärfe, L. Ger. scherf, H. Ger. schärpe, D. sjerp, O. Fr. escharpe, escherpe, escerpe, N. Fr. écharpe, Sp. charpa, It. sciarpa, ciarpa, probably from O. H. Ger. scarbon, N. H. Ger. scharben, L. Ger. scharven, A-S. scearpan, Fr. escharper, écharper, to cut, carve; A-S. scearf, a fragment, and hence, also, a strip cut off.] 1. A piece of dress of a light and decorative character, worn loosely over the shoulders or about the neck; a light shawl or handkerchief for the neck. Put on your hood and scarf. Swift. 2. (Ornith.) A water-fowl; the cormorant. [Prov. Eng.] Edin. Encyc.

Scārf, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. SCARFED (skärft); p. pr. & vb. n. SCARFING.]

To throw loosely on; to put on like a scarf.
To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose vesture. Shak.

Scārf, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [Sw. skarfra, to eke out, to join together, skarf, a seam, joint, Dan. skarre, to joint, to unite timber, Ger. scharben, to notch, indent. See supra.] To cut a scarf on, as for a joint in timber; to unite, as two pieces of timber, longitudinally by a scarf-joint; to table.

Scārf, n.

noun

n. [See supra.] (Carp.) (a.) The part cut away from each of two pieces of timber to be joined longitudinally, so that the corresponding ends may fit together in an even joint. (b.) The joint so formed.

Scarf joint, a joint formed by halving, notching, or cutting away part of the ends of two pieces of timber so that they will fit into each other, and form a lengthened beam of the same size at the junction as elsewhere.