Cauf

Pronunciation

• RP enPR: kôf, IPA: /kɔːf/

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

Full definition of cauf

Noun

1. A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
• 1926: Permanent International Association of Navigation Congresses, Reports, volume 2, unknown page (Executive Committee)The live fish is now kept in the cauves until sold for consumption in the home-country or abroad.

Phonetic respelling.

Noun

1. Eye dialect of calf
• 1845: Charles Rogers, Tom Treddlehoyle’s Thowts, Joakes, an Smiles for Midsummer Day, pages 40–41An 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.