noun
- a basket or cage used in mining to transport coal or ore
Usage: mining
Examples
- The miners loaded coal into the corf before sending it up the shaft.
- Each corf could hold about two tons of ore.
- The old mine still had several wooden corves stored in the equipment shed.
- Workers carefully positioned the corf on the pulley system.
- The corf was hauled to the surface by a mechanical winch.