English Explanatory Dictionary

wharve

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To turn, turn over (especially of mown grass).
noun
  1. The whorl of a spindle.

Pronunciation

/woɹv/ /wɔːv/ /ʍɔː(ɹ)v/

Word forms

wharve wharves wharving wharved whorf whorven wherve

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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