cauf

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Definition of cauf in English English dictionary

Eye dialect spelling of calf

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.

A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water

The live fish is now kept in the cauves until sold for consumption in the home-country or abroad.

{n} a chest with holes for keeping fish in the water

Etymology

() Originally a misspelling of corf (“basket”), of which cauf remains a homophone.