scarf

A long, often knitted, garment worn around the neck.

Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.

A headscarf.

A neckcloth or cravat.

To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf.

Vp from my Cabin, / My ſea-gowne scarft about me in the darke / Gropt I to find out them, […]

To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping.

She scarfed her head.

The back of her tan trenchcoat swished from left to right as she scarfed her head and disappeared into the dusk.

To cover as or like a scarf.

A cowl scarfed her shoulders.

She was trying to keep the silken veil scarfing her shoulders in order.

A type of joint in woodworking, formed by two shaped ends that fit into or onto each other.

A groove on one side of a sewing machine needle.

A dip or notch or cut made in the trunk of a tree to direct its fall when felling.