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)

1. (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.

Noun

wharve (plural wharves)

1. 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