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Wharrow. World English Historical Dictionary

Wharrow. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Wharrow Also 6 whar(r)owe, wherrow(e, 9 worra. [By-form of WHARVE sb.] = WHARVE sb. Obs. exc. dial. (= grooved pulley in spinning-wheel). Also attrib. wharrow-spindle (a heraldic bearing).

1 [c. 1475.  Pict. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 794/18. Hoc vertebrum, a aworowylle.]

2 1519.  Horman, Vulg., 149 b. I wotte nat where is my spyndel with the wharowe.

3 c. 1529.  Skelton, E. Rummyng, 298. Theyr wharrowe, Theyr rybskyn and theyr spyndell.

4 1578.  Lyte, Dodoens, VI. xxix. 695. The fruite whiche is large, and almost fashioned lyke to a wherrowe or buckler.

5 1610.  Guillim, Heraldry, IV. vii. 204. The round Ball at the lower end serueth to the fast twisting of the threed, and is called a Wharrow: and thereof this is called a Wharrow Spindle.

6 1716.  S. Kent, Gram. Her., s.v. Trefuses of Cornwall, A Chevron between three Wharrow Spindles Sable.

7 1825.  Jennings, Obs. Dial. W. Eng., 84. The spill and worra are attached to the common spinning-wheel.

8 c. 1828.  Berry, Encycl. Her., I. Gloss., Wharrow-Spindle is represented in heraldry with a hook at the end, to spin with a distaff.

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