"Or perhaps a half-corf, such as this wee one is carrying.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

The miner stopped the girl and one of his women lifted the corf.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

She was barefoot and carried on her back a corf half full of coal.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

"You weigh a good deal less than a corf full of coal," he said with a smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

Although her child was only a week or so old, the poor woman was carrying a full corf.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

All they could suggest was corf sone which my mother took in the form of tablets and injections in her neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [WILD SWANS THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA]

The miner, seemingly expecting this, caught her, and she felt the weight lifted from her back as the woman removed the corf.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

Jen lifted Wullie and slung him over her shoulder: his weight was nothing to a woman who could carry a full corf of coal up these stairs twenty times in a fifteen-hour shift.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

Our skipper had a bad leg, so as I was going aboard for some corf mixture, he just arst me to get him a drop of something to rub in.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference

But his highest ambition was to be taken on at the colliery where his father worked; and he shortly joined his elder brother James there as a “corf-bitter,” or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference

Well, the skipper here gives me a bottle of red liniment for our skipper's leg, and a big bottle of corf mixture for me, but by mistake I drinks the liniment and gave the corf mixture to our skipper to rub in his leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference

` Nay, 'says your father, and him all the time suff'rin' from a norful corf, -- ` nay, 'he says, ` don't you have it took off, my man,' he says; and I says I wouldn't, for o 'course I didn't want to go about like a pegtop; and he sets to and makes it right.    From Wordnik.com.  [First in the Field A Story of New South Wales] Reference

"We call it a corf," he said to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

The woman swung the corf onto Lizzie's back.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place Called Freedom]

Don't I look a corf-drop?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Servant in the House] Reference

Colliery — Sister Nell’s bonnet — Employed as a herd-boy — Makes clay engines — Follows the plough — Employed as corf-bitter — Drives the gin-horse — Black Callerton Colliery — Love of animals — Made assistant-fireman — Old Robert and family shift their home — Jolly’s Close, Newburn — Family earnings — George as fireman — His athletic feats — Throckley Bridge — “A made man for life!” —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference

'That corf?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vatican Rip]

And afliy corf?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tragedies: By Hugh Downman, M.D.] Reference

“Not ’arf a corf-drop, she ain’t.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [St Peter's Finger]