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wharve

UK/wɔːv/US/woɹv/

wharve verb: to turn, turn over (especially of mown grass).

Verb

wharve (third-person singular simple present wharves, present participle wharving, simple past wharved or whorf, past participle wharved or whorf or whorven)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) To turn, turn over (especially of mown grass).
    • It wharves the wair and stirs the sand.1898, “Junda” Klingrahoolː

Noun

wharve (plural wharves)

  1. The whorl of a spindle.
    • a wherue, whyche is a rounde thyne of stone, or wodde, or leadde, put on a spyndell to make it runne rounde.1538, Elyot, Spondilus
    • He did lay […] a thick round peece of lead like vnto a wherue.1590, Barrough, Meth. Phisick, volume xxiv, published 1596, page 339

wharve meaning in Urdu

wharve in Urdu

چرخی

Forms of wharve

Verb
third-person singular presentwharves
present participlewharving
pastwharved
pastwhorf
past participlewharved
past participlewhorf
past participlewhorven
Noun
pluralwharves
alternative formwherve

Origin of wharve

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”).

From Middle English wherve, from Old English hweorfa, related to the verb.

Words that rhyme with wharve

Questions about wharve

What does wharve mean?
Wharve means to turn, turn over (especially of mown grass).
What is wharve in Urdu?
Wharve in Urdu is چرخی. See Wharve meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is wharve?
Wharve can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce wharve?
Wharve is pronounced /woɹv/ (US).
What is the past tense of wharve?
The past tense of wharve is wharved.

Words near wharve in the dictionary

  1. Wharton's duct
  2. Wharton's jelly
  3. Whartonesque
  4. Whartonian
  5. Whartons
  6. wharve
  7. wharved
  8. wharves
  9. wharving
  10. whaserface
  11. whasername

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