wharve

English

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /woɹv/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /wɔːv/
(without the wine–whine merger, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ʍɔː(ɹ)v/
Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)v

Etymology 1

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”).

Verb

wharve (third-person singular simple present wharves, present participle wharving, simple past wharved or whorf, past participle wharved or whorven)

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

References

The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Etymology 2

From Middle English wherve, from Old English hweorfa, related to the verb.

Alternative forms

wherve

Noun

wharve (plural wharves)

The whorl of a spindle.
- 1538, Elyot, Spondilus:
  a wherue, whyche is a rounde thyne of stone, or wodde, or leadde, put on a spyndell to make it runne rounde.
- 1590, Barrough, Meth. Phisick, volume xxiv, published 1596, page 339:
  He did lay […] a thick round peece of lead like vnto a wherue.
- 1601, Pliny, Holland, xi. xxiv, I. page 323:
  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.
- 1688, Holme, Armoury III, xxi, page 266:
  The Warve or small Pullas.
- 1693, Urquhart's Rabelais, III. xxviii, page 237:
  Wouldst thou […] joynt the Wherves, slander the Spinning Quills, […]
- 1884, W. S. B. McLaren, Spinning, second edition, page 171:
  The wharve, B, together with sliding tube, C, runs loosely on the spindle and carries the bobbin.

Anagrams

Hawver