scarf

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A joint made by cutting or notching the ends of two pieces correspondingly and strapping or bolting them together.
• noun Either of the correspondingly cut or notched ends that fit together to form such a joint.
• transitive verb To join by means of a scarf.
• transitive verb To cut a scarf in.
• noun A long piece of cloth worn about the head, neck, or shoulders.
• noun A decorative cloth for covering the top of a piece of furniture; a runner.
• noun A sash indicating military rank.
• transitive verb To dress, cover, or decorate with or as if with a scarf.
• transitive verb To wrap (an outer garment) around one like a scarf.
• transitive verb To eat or drink voraciously; devour.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To wrap around one, as in the manner of a scarf.
• To cover with or as if with a scarf.
• noun The cormorant.
• In carpentry, to cut a scarf in; unite by means of a scarf. See scarf, n., 2.
• 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.
• noun 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.
• noun A band of warm and soft material, as knitted or crocheted worsted, worn around the neck and head in cold weather.
• noun 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.
• noun In heraldry, same as banderole.
• noun A long thin plate.
• noun A cut; notch; groove; channel.
• noun 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.
• noun 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.
• noun An obsolete variant of scarp.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun Scot. A cormorant.
• noun 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.
• transitive verb To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
• transitive verb To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
• noun 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.
• noun A scarf joint.
• noun A joint formed by welding, riveting, or brazing together the overlapping scarfed ends, or edges, of metal rods, sheets, etc.
• noun See under Weld.
• transitive verb To form a scarf on the end or edge of, as for a joint in timber, metal rods, etc.
• transitive verb To unite, as two pieces of timber or metal, by a scarf joint.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.
• noun A headscarf.
• noun A type of joint in woodworking.
• noun A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.
• verb To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.
• verb To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.
• verb transitive, US, slang To eat very quickly.
• verb To shape by grinding.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb masturbate while strangling oneself
• verb wrap in or adorn with a scarf
• noun a garment worn around the head or neck or shoulders for warmth or decoration
• verb unite by a scarf joint
• noun a joint made by notching the ends of two pieces of timber or metal so that they will lock together end-to-end