scarf

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A long piece of cloth worn about the head, neck, or shoulders.
2. n. A decorative cloth for covering the top of a piece of furniture; a runner.
3. n. A sash indicating military rank.
4. v. To dress, cover, or decorate with or as if with a scarf.
5. v. To wrap (an outer garment) around one like a scarf.
6. n. A joint made by cutting or notching the ends of two pieces correspondingly and strapping or bolting them together. Also called scarf joint.
7. n. Either of the correspondingly cut or notched ends that fit together to form such a joint.
8. v. To join by means of a scarf.
9. v. To cut a scarf in.
10. v. Slang To eat or drink voraciously; devour: "Americans scarf down 50 million hot dogs on an average summer day” ( George F. Will).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A cut; notch; groove; channel.
2. n. In carpentry, a joint by which the ends of two pieces of timber are united so as to form a continuous piece; also, the part cut away from each of two pieces of timber to be joined together longitudinally, so that the corresponding ends may fit together in an even joint. (Different scarf-joints are shown in the accompanying cut.) The joint is secured by bolts and straps.
3. n. In metal-working, the flattened or chamfered edges of iron prepared for union by welding or brazing, as in the brazing together of the two ends of a band-saw.
4. In carpentry, to cut a scarf in; unite by means of a scarf. See scarf, n., 2.
5. To flense, flay, or remove the skin and blubber from (a whale); cut off from a whale with the spade, as blubber; spade; cut in.
6. n. A band of some fine material used as a decorative accessory to costume, and sometimes put to practical use, as for muffling the head and face. The narrow mantle worn by women about 1830 to 1840 was of the nature of a scarf.
7. n. A band of warm and soft material, as knitted or crocheted worsted, worn around the neck and head in cold weather.
8. n. A cravat so worn that it covers the bosom of the shirt, whether it is passed through a ring, or tied in a knot, or put together in a permanent shape and fastened with a hook and eye or a similar appliance. See scarf-pin, scarf-ring.
9. n. In heraldry, same as banderole.
10. n. A long thin plate.
11. To wrap around one, as in the manner of a scarf.
12. To cover with or as if with a scarf.
13. n. The cormorant.
14. n. An obsolete variant of scarp.

Wiktionary

1. n. A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
2. n. A headscarf.
3. n. A type of joint in woodworking.
4. n. A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
5. v. To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
6. v. To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
7. v. transitive, US, slang To eat very quickly.
8. v. To shape by grinding.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Scot. A cormorant.
2. n. An article of dress of a light and decorative character, worn loosely over the shoulders or about the neck or the waist; a light shawl or handkerchief for the neck; also, a cravat; a neckcloth.
3. v. To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
4. v. To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
5. v. To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, metal rods, etc.
6. v. To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.
7. n. In a piece which is to be united to another by a scarf joint, the part of the end or edge that is tapered off, rabbeted, or notched so as to be thinner than the rest of the piece.
8. n. A scarf joint.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. masturbate while strangling oneself
2. v. wrap in or adorn with a scarf
3. n. a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration
4. v. unite by a scarf joint
5. n. a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end