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wharve

wharve

English

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.

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Etymology

From Middle English wharven ‎(“to turn”), from Old English hweorfan ‎(“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”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʍɑrv/, /ʍɔ(ɹ)v/

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