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wharve

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6 lettersPronunciation /woɹv/Sorted aehrvwStarts with WEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. To turn, turn over (especially of mown grass).

Word origin

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”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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