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🧣 A neck cloth 🍔 To eat quickly 🪵 A wood joint 🪵 To join wood 🧣 To wrap with cloth ⚠️ Risky self-pleasure
to scarf

to scarf

1 9.9
To join two beams by shaping their ends so they fit and lock
  • verb
  • /skɑrf/
  • Specialized
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  • These are prescribed medications that are killing people, not home-cooked, back-alley street drugs made with ingredients scarfed up at the local grocery store.

Examples

  • To join two pieces of wood at their ends, you should scarf them together to create a strong connection.

  • Secondly, it had scarfed up every photo on my computer and put it on the website page.

    Blog text (24)

  • I had to log on to "Smile" to make sure all the photos Smile scarfed up from my PC were deleted.

    Blog text (24)

  • I followed your advice for deleting the photos Smile scarfed.

    Blog text (24)

  • When Walter Simmons saw the boat, he brought it to his shop, and with the boy, through a long day, fitted pieces scarfed into the original planks so perfectly that they could hardly be seen.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • The carpenter showed me how to scarf the beams to ensure they fit seamlessly in the structure.

  • He learned to scarf two metal plates so they would appear as one solid piece after welding.

Synonyms

to knit
vsto scarf
10 3.6

To make people feel close and united

applies to a specific mechanical joint making pieces look continuous, not just general linking
to feather
vsto scarf
  • Specialized
8.8

To join boards by fitting a thin edge into a matching groove

joins pieces with an angled overlapping seam to appear as one continuous piece

Phrasal Verbs

to scarf out
  • Informal
8.4

To eat a lot of food very quickly

Compounds

bhagwa scarf
  • Indian
9.9

A saffron-colored scarf worn to show Hindu identity or political support

scarf bandage
  • UK
5.1

A wide triangular cloth worn around the neck to hold an injured forearm

scarf joint
  • Specialized
9.0

A connection where two pieces are shaped to fit end to end to form a longer piece

How Seamless

to scarf
  • Specialized
1 9.9
to splice
8 6.4

Surface Forms

scarf infinitive
scarfed past
scarfed past participle
scarfing present participle
scarfs third person singular

Etymology

Scarf as a verb meaning to join comes from the woodworking scarf joint, so to scarf is to make that join and make two pieces appear as a single length.