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Erf

1 British  
/ ɜːf /

acronym

  1. electrorheological fluid: a man-made liquid that thickens or solidifies when an electric current passes through it and returns to a liquid when the current ceases

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erf 2 British  
/ ɜːf /

noun

  1. a plot of land, usually urban, marked off for building purposes

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Used also as a comprehensive sign for all or any of the extant Anglo-Saxon glosses or glossaries: Cp, Ep, Erf, GPH, HGl, KGl, Ln, OEG, WW etc.

From A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by Hall, J. R. Clark (John R. Clark)

Erf, erf, n. a garden-plot in South Africa.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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