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See Corf.

An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.

p. p. of Carve. Chaucer.

A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.

A curvet. Peacham.

els, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigati…