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seventeen (iou) and scarf(6) (iou)


seventeen (iou)



seventeen adjective & noun (cardinal numeral).
[Old English seofontiene = Old Frisian soventene, Old High German, (German siebzehn), Old Norse sjautjan, from Germanic base of SEVEN adjective & noun, -TEEN.]
A. adjective. One more than sixteen (a cardinal numeral represented by 17 in Arabic numerals, xvii, XVII in roman). OE.
J. Morley A Lyons silk weaver, working..for over seventeen hours a day.
b. noun.
Seventeen persons or things identified contextually, as years of age, points, runs, etc. in a game, chances (in giving odds), minutes, shillings (now Hist.), pence, etc. ME.
sweet seventeen: see SWEET adjective & adverb.
J. L. Motley Of the tenders and zabras, seventeen were lost. Westminster Gazette Seventeen are filled with four-cylinder engines.
One more than sixteen as an abstract number; the symbols or figures representing this (17 in Arabic numerals, xvii, XVII in roman). LME.
The seventeenth of a set or series with numbered members, the one designated seventeen, (usu. number seventeen, or with specification, as book seventeen, chapter seventeen, etc.); a size etc. denoted by seventeen, a garment etc. of such a size, (also size seventeen). E16.
A set of seventeen; a thing having a set of seventeen as an essential or distinguishing feature. L20.
Comb.: Forming compound cardinal numerals with multiples of a hundred, as 517 (read five hundred and seventeen, US also five hundred seventeen), etc. In dates used for one thousand seven hundred, as 1715 (read seventeen fifteen), seventeen-nineties, etc. With nouns + -ER1 forming nouns with the sense 'something (identified contextually) being of or having seventeen s', as seventeen-tonner, seventeen-wheeler, etc. Special combs., as seventeen-hunder linen Scot. linen in the weaving of which 1700 threads go to the warp; seventeen-year cicada, seventeen-year locust an American cicada, Magicicada septendecim, whose nymphs emerge in large numbers periodically in a 17-year (or, in the south, a 13-year) cycle (cf. THIRTEEN-year cicada).

scarf(6) (iou)



scarf verb2. [sk¨»:f] E17.
[from SCARF noun1.]
I.
verb trans. Carpentry & Shipbuilding. Join by a scarf joint. E17.
scarfed joint = scarf joint s.v. SCARF noun1 1a.
verb intrans. Carpentry & Shipbuilding. Be joined with a scarf (to). L18.
verb trans. Bevel or flatten (the edge of a piece of metal to be welded). M19.
II.
verb trans. Whaling. Make an incision in the blubber of (a whale). M19.
verb trans. Forestry. Cut a scarf in (timber). Austral. & NZ. L19.