scarving

Noun

scarfing (plural scarfings)

1. Material for making scarves.
   • The Ascot scarfs may be arranged in regularity as shown, or they may each be displayed differently so as to bring out the colorings and designs in the scarfings.1896, The Clothier and Furnisher, volume 26, page 53
2. A scarf joint.
   • The scarfings of the piece must be kept clear of each other (that is, the points of junction in one piece must be as far as possible from those in another piece), and equally distributed in the mast.1884, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Aaron Ward, Text-book of Seamanship, page 79
3. (rare) A scarf; a covering.
   • High on the deck, under the cream-coloured sail and the flutter of pink scarfings and flags, stands Ulysses waving a defiant torch at Polyphemus, who, colossal through mist, claws at his wound, himself tall as a pyramid and vast as an Alp.1856 November 29, “Fine Arts: The Turners at Marlborough House”, in The Athenæum […], number 1518, London: […] James Holmes, […] J[ohn] Francis. […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1469, column 3