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Whift sb. World English Historical Dictionary

Whift sb. 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. Whift sb. Obs. exc. dial. [var. of WHIFF sb.1 with excrescent -t.]

1   1.  A whiff or slight blast of wind; a snatch (of song).

2 1614.  Gorges, Lucan, V. 202. So hauing said, the surging whifts The ship ten times together lifts.

3 1855.  Browning, Fra Lippo Lippi, 52. A sweep of lute-strings, laughs, and whifts of song.

4   2.  A small signal flag. (Cf. WHIFF sb.1 7.)

5 1839.  Beale, Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale, xii. 155. Two or three small flags, called ‘whifts,’ which are inserted in the dead whale, in case the boats should leave it in chase of others.

6 1846.  Young, Naut. Dict., 359. Waft, Weft, or Whift, a signal (most frequently for a boat) made by hoisting a flag rolled up lengthways and bound together with a few stops.

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