wharve
/woɹv/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To turn, turn over (especially of mown grass).
Example Sentences
- "1898, “Junda” Klingrahoolː It wharves the wair and stirs the sand."
- "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, […]"
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /woɹv/
- British English: /wɔːv/