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wherve

wherve is the alternative form of wharve.

Meaning of wharve

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

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Forms of wherve

pluralwherves

Questions about wherve

What is wherve the alternative form of?
Wherve is the alternative form of wharve.

Words near wherve in the dictionary

  1. wherrying
  2. wherryite
  3. wherryman
  4. wherrymen
  5. Wherrys
  6. wherve
  7. wherves
  8. Wherwell
  9. wherwith
  10. whet
  11. whet slate

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