Meaning & use
Scarfing
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Informally, eating food quickly and eagerly.
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The kids were scarfing down pizza before the movie started.
He scarfed his lunch in five minutes flat before the meeting.
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In woodworking and carpentry, 'scarfing' also names the technique of joining two pieces of timber with tapered, overlapping cuts.
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2. verb
Joining two pieces of timber or metal by cutting matching tapered ends and overlapping them.
The boatbuilder scarfed the planks together for a seamless joint.
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