Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Fine metallic filings or shavings removed by a cutting tool.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The grit mixed with particles of iron or steel worn away in grinding cutlery wet.
- noun Stupor; a fainting-fit; a swoon.
- To faint; swoon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Scot. To grow languid; to faint.
- noun Prov. Eng. The grit worn away from grindstones in grinding cutlery wet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the waste
chips orshavings frommetalworking or a saw cutting wood - noun the
grit worn away by use of agrindstone orwhetstone , being particles of the material being cut and of the cutting stone itself
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But other waste streams pose bigger challenges, like this stuff called swarf (ph).
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But other waste streams pose bigger challenges like this stuff, called swarf, a mixture of metal shavings and liquids.
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Like this stuff, called swarf, a mixture of metals shavings and liquid.
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But other waste streams pose bigger challenges like this stuff, called swarf, a mixture of metal shavings and liquids.
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Like this stuff, called swarf, a mixture of metals shavings and liquid.
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Leveraging aluminum recyclability without property loss, Alcan and Airbus have also engaged into a full recycling program committing to reclaim a significant proportion of the aluminium chips (i.e. "swarf") generated during manufacturing.
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Behind each man the corn swarf lay like silk in the light of the poppies.
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And the women gathered the swarf by armfuls, spun bants of straw and tied in armfuls into sheaves, stacked sheaves into kivvers.
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I use a small "super" magnet (about the size of a thumbnail) as a tool to catch swarf when i am drilling steel/iron etc ... madjack1987
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I use a small "super" magnet about the size of a thumbnail as a tool to catch swarf when i am drilling steel / iron etc...
fbharjo commented on the word swarf
remnants of filing
February 9, 2007
reesetee commented on the word swarf
The wet or greasy grit abraded from a grindstone or axle; the filings or shavings of iron or steel. Hence, any fine waste produced by a machining operation, especially when in the form of strips or ribbons.
February 15, 2008
sionnach commented on the word swarf
Is this like bort?
April 9, 2008
beatricks commented on the word swarf
Swar -- wait for it -- f.
August 25, 2009