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wharve

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15
Words With Friends
15
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/woɹv/
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/woɹv/ · /wɔːv/ · /ʍɔː(ɹ)v/

Definition of wharve

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland)To turn, turn over (especially of mown grass).
    ““Junda” Klingrahool (1898)ː It wharves the wair and stirs the sand.”
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verb

  1. (Northern-England, Scotland)To turn, turn over (especially of mown grass).
    ““Junda” Klingrahool (1898)ː It wharves the wair and stirs the sand.”

noun

  1. The whorl of a spindle.
    “a wherue, whyche is a rounde thyne of stone, or wodde, or leadde, put on a spyndell to make it runne rounde.”
    “He did lay […] a thick round peece of lead like vnto a wherue.”
    “So fine […] a thread she [a spider] spinnes, hanging thereunto her self, and using the weight of her owne bodie in stead of a wherve.”
    “The Warve or small Pullas.”
    “Wouldst thou […] joynt the Wherves, slander the Spinning Quills, […]”

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Etymology

From Middle English wharven (“to turn”), from Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwerban (“to turn”), from Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną (“to turn”). Cognate with Dutch werven (“to recruit”), Icelandic hverfa (“to turn”), Faroese hvørva (“to disappear”), German werben (“to recruit, advertise”).

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