kirffe

1) The EDD has 'kerf' meaning a saw-cut or incision and this may be an alternative spelling. In the only example noted it was apparently a ring cut round the trunk of a tree.

1544 ‘no one may make the kirffe round growing trees nor strip trees of their bark’, Slaithwaite.

places Slaithwaite
dates 1544

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