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Meaning of cauf | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/kɔːf/

Definitions

  1. A chest with holes for keeping fish alive in water.
  2. Pronunciation spelling of calf.
    alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

Examples

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

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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