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kerf
noun (plural: kerfs)
  1. a groove or slit in a material caused by cutting; an incision
  • 1999: They pass through a cleft that has been made across a low range of hills, like a in the top of a log, and enter into a lovely territory of subtly swelling emerald green fields strewn randomly with small white capsules that he takes to be sheep. " Neal Stephenson, Cryptonomicon
Etymology: Old English cyrf "a cutting off, a cutting instrument."

     
 
  

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