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▪ I. warp, n.1|wɔːp|
Also 1 wearp, (4 werpe, worp), 4–7 warpe.
[OE. wearp warp in weaving (also used to gloss L. vīmen osier-twig), corresponds to OLG. warp (MLG. warp, warpe), OHG. warf, warph, waraf (MHG., early mod.G. warf) warp in weaving, ON. varp neut., cast of a net, a laying of eggs (Sw. varp neut., cast of a net, draught of fish, hauling-rope, masc. warp in weaving, Da. varp neut. hauling-rope):—OTeut. *warpo-, f. root *werp-: *warp- to throw: see warp v. Branch IV is prob. a new formation on the verb.
Sense 6 may possibly represent an unrecorded sense of ON. varp: cf. -warp in Eng. place-names in Scandinavian districts.]
I.
1. a. Weaving. The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, usually twisted harder than the weft or woof, with which these threads are crossed to form the web or piece.
c725Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) S. 563 Stamen: wearp. a1000Riddles (Gr.) xxxv[i]. 5 Wundene me ne beoð wefle, ne ic wearp hafu. 1346Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 2 Item quod nulla trama que dicitur ab sit in loco panni vbi stamen quod dicitur warp poni debet. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. xi. (1495) 766 A spinner stretchyth the warpe wyth wonder craft fro the nether syde to the ouer and drawyth and bryngyth out ayen his threde thwarte ouer fro poynt to poynt. c1420Wyntoun Cron. v. xiii. 5039 Þat þar sulde litil leiff behynde Off warpe or weft to mak hir claythe. 1530Palsgr. 287/1 Warpe of clothe, chayne de drap. 1613J. May Decl. Estate of Cloth 26 A common thing it is for the weauer to couer a course warpe with a fine woofe, the warpe beeing spon hard and small, and the woofe soft and round to couer the warpe from sight. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. vi. (1626) 108 Both spread At once their warps, consisting of fine thred, Ty'd to their beames. 1714Fr. Bk. Rates 189 The Weavers shall be obliged to mount the Warps of their Linen with a sufficient Number of Threads. 1831G. R. Porter Silk Manuf. 219 The warp is now composed of threads of an equal length. 1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 350 Wire loom... C, the beam or wooden roller, which is turned with a succession of deep grooves, into which the warp is wound, each groove receiving a greater or less number of wires, according to the fineness of the fabric. 1867Morris Jason xvii. 501 For she herself within her fair-hung room Had set the warp and watched the fine weft glide Up from the roller. 1893J. T. Taylor Cotton Weaving 55 By having the shed fully open before the shuttle enters the shed, the warp is spread and a good cover put on the cloth.
b. fig. and in fig. context.
1575Gascoigne Posies, Compl. Gr. Knt. 28 O weauer, weauer, work no more, thy warp hath done me wrong. 1583B. Melbancke Philotimus Ee j b, Neither had I this clue of care to worke my warpe vpon. 1679E. Everard Discourses 13 By the whole sincere Warp of this History here related, we may see how rash a thing it is to judge of the Actions of a great Prince. 1849Robertson Serm. Ser. i. xxi. (1866) 348 Sorrow is..the..woof which is woven into the warp of life. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) II. 86 He weaves together the frame of his discourse loosely and which is the warp and which is the woof cannot always be determined. 1896W. Watson in Westm. Gaz. 2 Jan. 2/3 Still, on Life's loom, the infernal warp and weft Woven each hour! 1911E. C. Selwyn Oracles N.T. iii. 85 Throughout his narrative there is the underlying warp of the Old Testament.
2. Naut. (See quot.)
1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 179 Warp, or more properly Woof, is the twine..woven across the knittles in pointing. Ibid., Warp of Shrouds, the first given length, taken from the bolster at the mast-head to the foremost dead-eye.
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3. Naut. A rope or light hawser attached at one end to some fixed object, used in hauling or in moving a ship from one place to another in a harbour, road, or river; a warping hawser. † Also (at Ilfracombe), a certain apparatus for hauling in vessels: cf. warp-house (in 10).
1296[see warp-rope in sense 9]. 1342Cust. Acc. 176/3 (MS.), j cord' pro worp. 1420in For. Acc. 3 Hen. VI K/2 (MS.), ij hauusers de filo Burdegalie pro Frapelines et Warpe inde faciendis ponderis ciij quart. ix. lb. 1485Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 36 Smalle Warpes..j, Hawsers..xij. 1550Acts Privy Council (1890) II. 370 Cables, hawsers, warpes, pitche, tarre. 1562W. Bullein Bulwark, Bk. Simples (1579) 27 No Shippe can sayle without Hempe, the sayle clothes,..yearde lines, warps & Cables can not be made without it. 1615in W. Foster Lett. recd. E. Ind. Co. (1899) III. 201 We have been much troubled about the getting up of the ship-pinnace for lack of men and warps. 1630Lex Londinensis (1680) 212 Likewise to have a Warpe of forty fathom to sheer off and give way if any Ship..shall chance to drive upon them. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 19, I..laid warps to haul into shoal water. 1731Act 4 Geo. II c. 19 There shall be paid by the Master or Commander of every Vessel, belonging to the Port of Ilfordcombe, who shall make use of the Warp, the Sum of Six Shillings and eight Pence. 1840R. H. Dana Bef. Mast xxxvi. 139 [We] took the warp ashore, manned the capstan [etc.]. 1841B. Hall Patchwork II. 3 An entering..ship is drawn along by a rope, or warp, as it is called. 1899F. T. Bullen Log Sea-waif 254 Our discharging was soon over, the warps cast off.
transf.1851Harper's Mag. III. 518 Loads are eased down hillsides by the use of..a strong warp taking a bight round a tree and hitching-to one yoke oxen.
b. Trawl-fishing. A rope attached to a net.
1835J. Couch in 3rd Rep. R. Cornw. Polytechn. Soc. 74 When every thing is favourable, a warp from the end of the stop-sean is handed to the volyer. 1854Putnam's Monthly Mag. Apr. 362/2 The fishermen beach the boat at the other side of the bay, carry the warp at that end to the further capstan, and prepare to haul. 1883R. F. Walsh Ir. Fisheries 11 Some use stoppers, which extend from the top line downwards to the warps, but these are not so advantageous, as they tend to huddle the net together.
c. Whaling. (See quot.)
1897F. T. Bullen Cruise of ‘Cachalot’ 226 The second mate had three fish fast..two on ‘short warps’, or pieces of whale-line some eight or ten fathoms long fastened to harpoons, with the other ends running on the main line by means of bowlines round it.
†4. ? A strand of a fishing-line. Obs.
1496Fysshynge wyth Angle 13 Thenne twyne euery warpe one waye and ylyke moche: and fasten theym in thre clyftes ylyke streyghte.
III. 5. a. A tale of four (occas. three or a couple), esp. used of fish and oysters.
1436Nottingham Rec. II. 156 Item in uno warpe de salt⁓fyssh. 1509Market Harb. Rec. (1890) 230 In salt Fyshe xcvij warpe and half. 1533in Archæologia XXV. 523 For ij warpe off lynge & a warpe of codd, viij d. 1589R. Harvey Plain Perc. (1590) 14 In euery trade and occupation, there is a better and a worse, as there is in euery warpe of fish, a great and a lesse. 1623Althorp MS. in Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) p. lii, Mdm That every two fishes of linge, haberdine, & greenfish is one warpe. 1674S. Jeake Arith. Surv. (1696) 66 Yet at Yarmouth they sell 33. Warpe to the Hundred. 1796Statist. Acc. Scot. XVII. 69 A hundred [of oysters], as sold by the fishers, contains 33 warp equal to six score and twelve... Four oysters make a warp. 1816Scott Antiq. xxxi, His honour Monkbarns should never want sax warp of oysters in the season. 1894Hall Caine Manxman v. iii, Every man ate his warp of herring.
†b. nonce-use. a warp of weeks, four weeks.
1599Nashe Lenten Stuffe C 1, Those embenched shelues..where cods & dogfishe swomme (not a warp of weeks fore⁓running).
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6. a. Alluvial sediment deposited by water; silt. Sometimes artificially introduced over low-lying land, and sometimes occurring as a stratum in soil.
1698De la Pryme Diary (Surtees) 184 In digging of the well..they found..three yard sand, one foot fine warp. Ibid. 314 Y⊇ muddy waters of y⊇ Don and Idle..deposited so much silt and warp that they made a great deal of high land on both sides of their streams. 1798Trans. Soc. Arts XVI. 179 Greatly improved by a sediment or mud (commonly called warpe) from the river Dun. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 435 The tide is let in at high water to deposit the warp or enriching substance. 1839Stonehouse Isle of Axholme 25 At Althorpe, in sinking wells, eight or ten feet of warp have been dug through, then one or two feet of sand, and then warp again. 1865W. White East. Eng. II. 38 Bog..converted into corn-fields, by spreading over them the warp or muddy deposit dug from an old river⁓bed. 1894Athenæum 9 June 744/3 The evidence of their antiquity rests, therefore, upon their geological position under the contorted drift otherwise called ‘warp and trail’.
b. A bed or layer of this. See also quot. 1867.
1678Phillips (ed. 4), Warp, a Shole, that beginning near the Buoy of Oar-hedge, comes out of the Swin up the River. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk, Warp,..land between the sea-banks and the sea. 1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. II. 87 He would gallop like mad down the warps. 1872A. C. Ramsay Phys. Geol. (ed. 3) 107 Covered..with an oozy loam like the warps of the Wash and the Humber.
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7. A twist or bending, esp. in wood not properly dried; also the state of being warped or twisted.
1679Evelyn Sylva xxvii. (ed. 3) 143 The Wind-shock is a bruise, and shiver throughout the Tree, though not constantly visible, yet leading the Warp from smooth renting, caused by over-powerful Winds, when young. 1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. ix. §4. 243 Bending, bow, warp, crooke. 1871M. Collins Marq. & Merch. I. ix. 295 A warp in the glass made him look as if he had taken poison. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage xviii. 329 Those [ships] which were newly built he laid up for the winter in dry docks..that their unseasoned timbers might warp or leak in a place where a warp or leak would not be fatal to them. 1894Blackmore Perlycross iv. 20 Ah! it is a little on the warp, I fear.
8. a. fig. A perversion or perverse inclination of the mind; a mental twist; a wrong bias.
1764Mem. G. Psalmanazar 41 An unchristian warp of the will. 1786H. More Florio 689 A little warp his taste had gain'd. 1830Examiner 615/1 One of the author's warps was against..Utilitarians. 1848Dickens Dombey xlv, Mr. Dombey..is so prone to pervert even facts to his own view, when he is at all opposed, in consequence of the warp in his mind, that he [etc.]. 1875Ruskin Fors Clav. liii. 121 All the teaching of God..is not only mysterious, but, if received with any warp of mind, deceptive. a1878S. Bowles in Merriam Life (1885) II. 337 (Cent.) Somebody in Berkshire, I fancy, had warped his mind against you, and no mind is more capable of warps than his.
b. Science Fiction. = space warp s.v. space n.1 20.
1936Astounding Stories June 30 AKKA is the symbol for humanity's secret weapon. Its user, with simple instruments, can destroy any object in the universe—by so altering the warp of space that neither matter nor energy can exist. 1954Galaxy Aug. 80/2 Halfway between Earth and Venus there was a sudden shimmer as the Vegan ship slipped out of warp into normal space.
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9. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 1) warp edging, warp line, warp machinery, warp-mill, warp-roller, warp-scouring vbl. n., warp-spinner, warp-thread, warp-twist, warp-yarn; (sense 3) warp-anchor, warp-rope; (sense 6) warp-bank, warp land, warp loam.
1699T. Allison Voy. Archangel 12, I..carried both the Kedge Anchor and *Warp Anchor ashore.
1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln. 166 Mr. Webster..has it [lucerne] drilled; and very luxuriant the first year, on a *warp bank.
1888Daily News 9 July 2/7 Irish crochet trimmings and *warp edgings are dull of sale.
1794Leatham Agric. E. Riding Yorks. 11 Along the side of the Ouse and Humber we find a considerable quantity of *warp land.
1879T. R. Ashenhurst Weaving 110 The *Warp Line.
1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln 9 Beyond this..is a very rich *warp loam of various description.
1838Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 390/2 Fabrics produced by *Warp Machinery.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 1284 One-sixth of that number of bobbins is usually mounted at once in a *warp mill.
1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 411 These rods are at different periods moved towards the *warp-roller B.
1296Acc. Exch. K.R. 5/20 m. 4 b (MS.), j. Boulyn, j. *Warperape, iijes Cabule. 1497Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 115 Hawser cald warp rope.
1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. iv. 130 A process of ‘*warp-scouring’ in which the warp, after being washed, is squeezed between rollers.
1634Canterb. Marriage Licences (MS.), Robert Wood of Salehurst in Sussex, *warpe spinner.
1831–3P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 741 The *warp thread proceeding from the lower roller.
1851Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. vi**, The long threads are called the *warp-twist, or organzine.
1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 110 This mill spins *warp yarn by throstles, weft yarn by mules.
10. Special comb.: † warp-bar, some kind of appendage to a loom; warp-beam, the roller on which the warp is wound and from which it is drawn as the weaving proceeds; warp-dresser (a) = warper 2; (b) a machine for sizing yarns for the loom (Knight); † warp-faced a., having distorted features; warp-farmer, a farmer who uses ‘warp’ on his land; warp-frame = warp-machine; † warp-house, at Ilfracombe, the building containing the apparatus for hauling vessels; warp-lace, a kind of lace having threads so placed as to resemble the warp of a fabric; also attrib.; warp-machine, a lace-making machine having a thread for each needle employed (Knight); warp-net frame = prec.; warp print = shadow print s.v. shadow n. 16; hence warp-printed a.; warp-river, a river depositing ‘warp’; warp-slat = slat n.1 5 a; warp-stitch (see quot.); warp-wire, one of the lengthwise wires in a wire-loom.
1538Nottingham Rec. III. 200 Unum wollenlome cum ryngrathes, *warpbarres et spoyle whele.
1831–3P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 734, B is the *warp beam, or that on which the warp is first wound.
1851in Inquiry, Yorks. Deaf & Dumb (1870) 45 William Sutton, *warp-dresser.
1611Coryat Crudities 232 A weather beaten *warp-faced fellow.
1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln 278 A considerable *warp farmer told me, that the stiffer warp was the best.
1831–3P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VIII. 740 The *warp frame.
1731Act 4 Geo. II c. 19 Preamble, The Warp and *Warp-house by long Usage gone to Decay. 1742De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 3) II. 13 The Warp-house, Light-house, Pilot-boats, and Taw-boats belonging to the Port [Ilfracombe].
1812Ann. Reg., Chron. 30 Others..demolished five *warp-lace frames. 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xv. (ed. 3) 138 Another similar article, called ‘warp lace’.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Warp-frame or *Warp-net Frame.
1916Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 23 July 8/7 This offering comprises Fancy Ribbons in *warp-print, Dresden, Pompadour and novelty stripe and plain effects. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 246 Shadow or Warp print. The warp yarns are printed with the design before weaving, giving a shadowy print effect.
1957Times 16 Sept. 11/1 The short dress..is in white satin with a small *warp-printed design in black.
1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln 277 No floods in the countries washed by the *warp rivers bring it [the muddy water].
1907C. Hill-Tout Brit. N. Amer., Far West vi. 115 To give the bottom [of the basket] the ovaloid form, which most have, the *warp-slats are trimmed to the desired shape before the weft strand is woven into them.
1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 195 *Warp Stitch, an Embroidery Stitch used when threads are drawn away from the material to form the pattern. Warp stitch consists of drawing away the threads that form the weft, or cross the material, and leaving the warp or lengthways threads.
1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 351 The *warp-wires being made to change positions by means of the treadle.
▸ warp factor n. Science Fiction (originally in the U.S. television series Star Trek), the degree to which the velocity of a spaceship, etc., exceeds the speed of light; the level of warp speed; freq. used attrib. with number, as warp factor two (three, etc.); also in extended use.
1968S. E. Whitfield in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ ii. ii. 191 Star Trek solves the problem by measuring all faster-than-light speeds in terms of ‘*Warp Factors’. Warp Factor One is the speed of light. Warp Factor Three is 24 times the speed of light. 1974J. Blish Star Trek 10 84 Let's take her out. Warp factor two. 1985L. Choyce Avalanche Ocean (1987) i. 60 It seemed now that we had increased our speed to warp factor five but, of course, that was just because we were cruising along. 1993What Hi-Fi? Oct. 45/3 And if you're after warp factor 10 bass, use heavy gauge stranded speaker cables, not a solid core. 2001RCM & E Mar. 59/3 Speed junkies might have difficulty in controlling a model that isn't going at warp factor 6.
▸ warp speed n. orig. Science Fiction (popularized by the U.S. television series Star Trek; quot. 1977 is from a novel based on the series), a (hypothetical) faster-than-light speed, attained by a spaceship with a propulsion mechanism capable of manipulating space-time (see space warp n. at space n.1 Compounds 4); (also, in extended use) an extraordinarily high speed.
[1968–9J. L. Arosete All our Yesterdays in Star Trek (television script) Beam us up. Maximum warp as soon as we are on board.] 1977S. Marshak & M. Culbreath Price of Phoenix xxi. 136, I would feel better if we could head out at *warp speed. 1979G. Roddenberry Star Trek: Motion Picture 101 ‘Engineer,’ Kirk persisted, ‘we need warp speed now!’ 1980Aviation Week & Space Technol. (Nexis) 4 Aug. ‘That would place Los Alamos at a point to move at warp speed to particle-beam weapons energies’, one Pentagon official explained. 1991Chicago Tribune 4 Nov. iv. 8/1 The strip's barbs may still zing the establishment, but its marketability reached warp speed long ago. 1993Outdoor Canada May 19/3 Almost immediately, a six-pound lake trout swam a warp-speed figure eight around the lure and swallowed it. 2000N.Y. Times 30 Oct. c12 (advt.) It's also the future-proof platform to keep your business moving at warp speed tomorrow.
▪ II. † warp, n.2 Thieves' cant. Obs.
(See quots.)
1591Greene 2nd Pt. Conny-catching Wks. (Grosart) X. 86 In blacke Art [picking of lockes]. He that hooks, the Comber [read Courber as on p. 122] He that watcheth, the Warpe. Ibid. 122 When he..spyes any fat snappings worth the Curbing, then streight he [the Courber] sets the Warp to watch, who hath a long cloak to couer whatsoeuer he gets. Ibid. 123.
▪ III. warp, v.|wɔːp|
Pa. tense and pple. warped |wɔːpt|. Forms: 1 weorpan, wurpan, wyrpan, 2–3 werpen, (Orm. werrpenn), 3 weorpen, wearpe, worpe(n, 3–4 warpen, 3–6 werp(e, 5 warpyn, -on, 4–6 Sc. varp, 7 Sc. worp, 3–7 warpe, 4– warp. pa. tense sing. 1 wearp, 1 Northumb., 2–4 warp, (Orm. warrp), 3 weorp, 3–4 werp, 4–5 warpe; pl. 1 wurpon, Northumb. worpon, -un, 3 wurpen, worpen, weorpen. pa. pple. 1, 3–5 worpen, 3 (i)worpe, Orm. worrpenn, 6 Sc. warp. Also pa. tense and pa. pple. 4–6 war-, werpid, -it, -et, 4– warped.
[A Com. Teut. str. vb.: OE. weorpan (wearp, wurpon, worpen) corresponds to OFris. werpa (worp, wurpon, ewurpen), OS. werpan (warp, wurpun, worpan), Du. werpen (wierp, worpen), OHG. werfan (warf, wurfun, worfen), MHG., mod.G. werfen (warf, wurfen, geworfen), ON. verpa (varp, urpu, orpenn), Sw. verpa, Da. verpe, Goth. wairpan (warp, waurpum, waurpans); f. OTeut. root *werp- (warp-, wurp-):—pre-Teut. *werb-; the root is not found outside Teut.
The strong conjugation did not survive in Eng. later than the 15th c.]
I. To cast, throw.
†1.
a. trans. To project through space; to cast, throw, fling. Obs.
c888ælfred Boeth. vii. §3 Ða hine mon on þæt fyr wearp þa alysde ic hine mid heofonlicon rene. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. vii. 6 Ᵹe ne wurpen eowre meregrotu toforan eowrum swinum. c1200Ormin 10488 & werrpenn all þe chaff anan, Inntill þe fir to bærnenn. c1205Lay. 17430 Al swa feor swa a mon mihte werpen ænne stan. a1225Ancr. R. 404 Mon worpeð Grickischs fur upon his fomen. c1250Owl & N. 768 Mid liste me may walles felle & werpe [v.r. worpe] of horse knyhtes snelle. c1300Havelok 1061 He warp þe ston Ouer þe laddes euerilkon. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints ii. (Paul) 344 Sanct paulis hed eftir his discese In a depe vewar warpit was. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. 4743 Þe wardane gert his wrichtis syne Set vp richt stoutly ane ingyne, And warpit til þe toure a stan. 1513Douglas æneis i. Prol. 280 And bot my buik be fundin worth sic thre, Quhen it is red, do warp it in the se.
†b. with adv., as down, up, out, away. Obs.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xvii. 27 Gang to þære sæ, and wurp þinne angel ut [Vulg. mitte hamum]. c1200Ormin 16040 Þurrh þatt he warrp ut i þe flor þe sillferr & te bordess. c1205Lay. 5083 Awei he warp his gode breond. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 15875 His staf ful sleyly vp he warp. 1375Barbour Bruce iii. 642 He had bene tane but dout, Na war it that he warpyt owt All that he had, him lycht to ma. c1400Destr. Troy 13412 He..warpet ouer-burde Mikill riches & relikes reft fro the toune.
†c. To cast (lots). Obs.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxvii. 35 Hiᵹ todældon hys reaf, and wurpon hlot þær-ofer [Vulg. sortem mittentes]. c1205Lay. 15498 Þe king..bad heom leoten werpen.
†2. To sprinkle, scatter (something) on (a surface). Also with out: To cause to spirt; to emit, shoot forth. Obs.
c1000Sax. Leechd. II. 240 Dweorᵹe dwostlan weorp on weallende wæter. c1175Lamb. Hom. 41 Seodðan he him sceaude an ouen on berninde fure he warp ut of him seofe leies. Ibid. 129 Þurh þisse tacne Moyses werp ut þet welle weter of þan herda flinte. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 161 Hie wenden þe eorðe and wurpen god sad þaronne. c1205Lay. 4518 Me warp on his nebbe cold welle watere. a1225Ancr. R. 246 Ase ofte ase þe ueond assaileð ouwer castel..worpeð ut uppon him schaldinde teares.
†3.
a. With up, open, wide, on brede: To open (a gate) violently or suddenly, fling open. With to: To shut, slam. Obs.
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives iii. 347 Þa com færlice mycel wynd and wearp upp þa duru. a1400–50Wars Alex. 1526 Þus atired he þe toune & titely þar-eftir On ilka way wid open werped he þe ȝatis. Ibid. 2142 Ȝa, werpis þam [the gates] vp..& wide open settis. c1400Destr. Troy 10462 Þai wan in wightly, warpit to þe yates, Barrit hom full bigly with boltes of yerne. Ibid. 11924 When the buernes of the burgh were broght vpon slepe, He warpit vp a wicket. 1513Douglas æneis x. i. 1 On breid, or this, was warp and mayd patent The hevynly hald of God omnipotent. Ibid. xii. x. 80 Sum bad..Warp vp the portis, and wide the ȝettis cast To the Troianis.
†b. intr. Of a door: To open (wide, etc.).
a1375Joseph Arim. 257 He bad him lifte vp and þe lide warpes. 1513Douglas æneis vi. i. 118 Bot thow do, thir gret durris..sall nevir warp on breid. Ibid. vi. ii. 2 The hundreth gret durris..At thair awin willis warpit wyde.
†4. trans. To put (a garment) on or off hastily.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2025 Whyle þe wlonkest wedes he warp on hym-seluen. a1400Morte Arth. 901 Sir Arthure..Wente to hys wardrope, and warpe of hys wedez. a1400Pistill of Susan 124 Þe wyf werp of hir wedes vn-werde.
†5.
a. To throw down, overthrow. Usually with adv., as down, under, to ground. Obs.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 7 Þu warpest þene alde feont. c1200Ormin 3575 Forr Crist wass strang wiþþ hannd inoh To werrpenn dun þe deofell. c1205Lay. 25889 Þæs bures dure he warp adun Þat heo to-barst a uiuen. Ibid. 28729 Mine wiðer-iwinnen, weorpeð heom to grunden. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2640 Ðe child it warp dun to de [read ðe] grund. c1400Destr. Troy 1297 The Troiens..Wondid of þe wightist, warpide hom vnder. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 6683 We schal of hem to grounde warpe With swordes bryght and speres scharpe.
†b. Of wind: To toss or drive (a ship) violently about. Obs.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 444 As þat lyftande lome luged aboute, Where þe wynde & þe weder warpen hit wolde.
†c. ? To swing round, whirl. Obs.
1513Douglas æneis xi. xi. 103 And oft about hyr hed..[she] Wald warp the stringis of the stowt staf slyng.
†6. fig.
a. To drive out, expel, reject, renounce; usually with out, away. Also, to trample (under foot). Obs.
c1000Ags. Gosp. John vi. 37 Ic ne weorpe ut [Vulg. non eiciam foras] þone þe to me cymð. a1225Ancr. R. 40 Gif me worpen mid him al þe world under vet. Ibid. 230 Þeo deoflen þet ure Louerd werp ut of one monne. Ibid. 356 Worp awei urom me alle mine gultes. a1225Leg. Kath. 829 Sone se ich awei warp ower witlese lei. c1230Hali Meid. 5 Þeos þohtes warp ut of þin heorte. a1300Cursor M. 24247 Nu comforth þe..And werp awai þi wepe.
†b. To plunge (a person) suddenly or roughly (into prison, distress, etc.); to put to death. Obs.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 143 Þe sunfulle Men..sculen beon iwarpen ine eche pine. c1200Ormin 19608 He let bindenn himm,..& i cwarrterrne werrpenn. c1400Destr. Troy 10973 Mony worthy þai woundit, & warpit to dethe. c1460Towneley Myst. xxiii. 413 Thou art warpyd all in wo. c1590J. Stewart Poems (S.T.S.) II. 17 Dreid of dainger varps hir in ane trans.
†7.
a. intr. To go hastily, fling away. Of wind: To rise up. Obs.
a1400Morte Arth. 2746, I rede ȝe..warpes wylily awaye. a1400–50Wars Alex. 557 Wild wedirs vp werpe & þe wynd ryse.
b. Sc. Of bees: To swarm. Cf. cast v. 22.
a1824in Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 94 The hive which warped owre the fell.
†8. trans. With inversion of const.: To strike, hit, assail with (a missile). Also, to besprinkle (with a liquid). Obs.
Beowulf 2791 He hine eft ongon wæteres weorpan. c888ælfred Boeth. xvi. §2 Þa forceaw he his tungan & wearp hine mid ðære tungan on þæt neb foran. c1205Lay. 29562 Heo..wurpen hine mid banen. a1250Owl & Night. 1121 Ȝif þu art iworpe oþer ischote.
†9. transf. and fig. In various uses: To thrust (one's hand) forth; to lay (hands) on; to cast (one's head) down; to strike (a stroke). Obs.
a1225St. Marher. 3 As theos cnihtes walden warpen honden on hire ha bigon to cleopien ant callen þus to criste. a1225Ancr. R. 88 [He] Weorpeð adun þet heaueð. Ibid. 96 Ȝif eni wurðeð so wod..þet he worpe his hond forð touward þe þurl cloð. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxviii. 267 Þat þai suld tak þat maydin schen,..and strakis fel til hyre let warpe.
10.
†a. To cast, shed (horns). Obs.
c1220Bestiary 325 in O.E. Misc. 11 He werpeð er hise hornes in wude er in ðornes.
†b. To lose (the natural hue). Obs.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 183 Among þat þe sowle witeð, þe licame worpeð hewe.
†11.
a. To utter, pronounce (a word, speech); to utter (a cry), heave (a sigh). Also with out. Also absol., to talk, speak (of). Obs.
a1225Ancr. R. 306 Mid tisse schulen þe uorlorene worpen a swuch ȝeor þet heouene & eorðe muwen beoðe grisliche agrisen. a1225Leg. Kath. 1325 Þet we ne cunnen..warpen na word aȝein. a1225Juliana 21 He..weorp a sic as a wiht þat sare were iwundet. 13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 879 A note ful nwe I herde hem warpe. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2253, I schal stonde stylle, & warp þe no wernyng, to worch as þe lykez. c1400Destr. Troy 2683 Ho..Warpet out wordes wonder to here. c1420Wyntoun Cron. lxxxiv. 1707 (Wemyss) Quhen þis wif had warpit þus Off this abbot Eugenyus. 1513Douglas æneis ii. xi. 23 Scarslie the auld thir wordis hed warpit out. Ibid. v. viii. 116 And he abufe hym werpis sic sawis.
†b. To cast (one's eyes) on or upon (an object).
c1200Ormin 12758 Crist warrp eȝhe upponn Symon. a1225Ancr. R. 52 Hwoso heuede iseid to Eue þeo heo werp hire eien þerone, A! wend te awei; þu worpest eien o þi deað.
12. dial.
a. To lay (eggs). Also absol. [So ON. verpa.]
a1340Hampole Psalter xc. 13 Þe snake werpis and þe tade nuryssis þe eg, and þarof is broght forth þe basilyske. 1483Cath. Angl. 409/1 To Warpe as byrdis dose, jncubare, ponere oua. 1570Levins Manip. 33/6 To warp an egge, ouum ponere. 1787Grose Prov. Gloss., Warp, to lay eggs. A hen warps or warys. N. 1825Brockett N.C. Words s.v., A hen is said to warp when she lays.
b. To bring forth (young) naturally. rare. (In quot. absol.)
1738G. Smith Cur. Relat. II. 453 They [beavers] don't warp in their Houses, but in Hollows dug under Ground.
c. Of a ewe, cow, etc.: To bring forth (young), prematurely; to cast, slip, drop. Also absol.
a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 283 A cow, that..warps her calf three months before her time. Ibid. 310 If the ewes warped, they turned them out to the rams again. 1813T. Rudge Agric. Glouc. 297 Cows are liable to slip or warp their calves. 1903Athenæum 7 Mar. 307/3 Never had so many ewes been known to warp.
II. To bend, twist aside.
13. To bend, curve, or twist (an object) out of shape; spec. to curve (timber) by the application of steam; also, to distort, contort (the body or a limb, the features).
a1400–50Wars Alex. 798 Al to-wraiste þai þar wode & werpis in-sondire. c1440Promp. Parv. 517/1 Warpyn', or make wronge, curvo. 1593Nashe Christ's T. P 1 b, Age will..warpe our backs. 1648Herrick Hesp., Paneg. Sir L. Pemberton 9 Laden spits, warp't with large Ribbs of Beefe. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 419 As in some places, the violence of Heat; so in other, the extremity of Cold, hath often warped Nature, and made it become deformed. 1742Jarvis 2nd Pt. Quixote iii. x. II. 219 If perchance the rod of justice be warped a little. 1799Naval Chron. I. 288 The method was introduced of warping planks to the timbers by the means of steam. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies xxvii. 244 Baring his left arm, he showed it warped and contracted by a former attack of rheumatism. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xx, A singularly marked expression of disgust, horror, hatred, warped his countenance almost to distortion. 1849Miss Mulock Ogilvies xxi, Trying to bend it straight, as he would a tree which wrong culture had warped aside. 1876R. Broughton Joan i. i, A book with its back still warm and warped from having been held over the fire. 1896Conan Doyle Rodney Stone xxi, Age had warped and cracked the boards.
fig.1662Petty Taxes & Contrib. 9, I descend no lower, wishing onely that there might be an universal Reformation of what length of time hath warped awry.
14. a. intr. To become bent, twisted, or uneven, by shrinkage or contraction. Said esp. of timber. (Cf. cast v. 53.)
c1440Promp. Parv. 517/1 Warpyn', or wex wronge or avelonge, as vesselle, oblongo. 1530Palsgr. 772/1, I warpe, as bordes do, whan they croke for want of good seasonnyng. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. 106 The Elme..is meete for the cheekes and postes of Gates,..for it wyll not bowe, nor warpe. 1657Trapp Comm. Esther ii. 2 Green wood is ever shrinking and warping. 1783Justamond tr. Raynal's Hist. Indies III. 159 If the pieces..are thicker..on one side than another,..they will warp to that side. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 37 Cast iron, when annealed, is less liable to warp by a subsequent partial exposure to moderate degrees of heat. 1826Scott Woodst. ii, Old wood seldom warps in the wetting. 1881Young Every Man his own Mechanic §46. 23 Black Ebony..will not warp readily.
b. fig., or in fig. context. (Cf. 19.)
1599Marston Antonio's Rev. v. vi, You are well seasond props, And will not warpe, or leane to either part. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. iii. 90 This fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a shrunke pannell, and like greene timber, warpe, warpe. 1682J. Flavel Fear 44 It would make them warp and bend under such temptations. 1690Locke Hum. Und. i. iii. §20 It being all one, to have no Rule, and one that will warp any way. 1736T. Lediard Life Marlborough I. 58 To set that Law streight again, which he had made to warp to his Prince's Humour. 1874C. E. Norton Lett. (1913) II. 33, I, too, warp and crack in this dry, clear atmosphere.
15. a. trans. To contract, cause to shrink or shrivel, corrugate. rare.
1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 187 Freize, freize, thou bitter skie..Though thou the waters warpe, thy sting is not so sharpe, as freind remembred not. 1875B. Taylor Faust I. ii. 46 Then from the East they come, to dry and warp Your lungs.
b. intr. To shrink or shrivel, become contracted or wrinkled. Also fig. rare.
1579Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 61 You must keepe your sweete faces from scorching in the sun, chapping in the winde, and warping with the weather. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 365 Me thinkes My fauor here begins to warpe. 1696Tutchin Pindarick Ode ii. 10 The Fames of Shakespear and of Ben Must warp, before my nobler fire To their regardless Tombs retire.
16. trans. (fig.) To pervert, distort (the mind, judgement, principles, etc.); to give a ‘twist’ or bias to; to turn (aside) from rectitude or the straight path.
1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. iv. i. (1601) G 1 b, Me thinkes thy seruant Hedon is nothing so obsequious to thee, as he was wont to be: I know not how, Hee's growne out of his Garbe a-late, hee's warp't. 1700Dryden Sigism. & Guisc. 402 Nor Folly warp'd my Mind, Nor the frail Texture of the Female Kind Betray'd my Vertue. 1710Addison Whig-Exam. No. 4 ⁋4, I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy. 1718Dk. Buckhm. Let. to Pope Wks. 1723 II. 289 Suffering their judgments to be a little warped (if I may use that expression) by the heat of their eager inclinations. 1725Watts Logic ii. iv, Watch against every Temptation that might bribe your Judgment, or warp it aside from Truth. 1852Smedley L. Arundel xxvii. 205 These two men, each warped and hardened differently..by the world's evil influence. 1879M. Arnold Fr. Crit. Milton, Mixed Ess. 252 Johnson's mind..was at many points bounded, at many points warped. 1884A. R. Pennington Wiclif Pref. p. ix, He often allows his prejudice against Wiclif to warp his judgment. 1919C. Goring Eng. Convict i. 11 The science of criminology..has been..warped by its subjection to all sorts of superstitious and conventional dogmas.
b. Const. from, out of; to, into.
1650B. Discolliminium 17 He that is warp'd in his Divinity, will never be at rest till he hath wrap'd [? read warp'd] his Policy to it. 1685Dryden Threnod. August. 322 Not Faction,..Not Foreign or Domestick Treachery, Could Warp thy Soul to their Unjust Decree. a1711Ken Poet. Wks. (1868) 272 My treacherous heart I fear, Warp'd to the world. 1758–65Goldsm. Ess., Taste (Globe) 315/2 By the present mode of education we are forcibly warped from the bias of nature. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 628 There is such perpetual danger from all quarters of having the moral sense warped to a false direction. 1796Bp. Watson Apol. Bible 379 Some men have been warped to infidelity by viciousness of life. 1842Tennyson Locksley Hall 60 Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth! 1853Dickens Bleak Ho. xxxv, Jarndyce and Jarndyce has warped him out of himself, and perverted me in his eyes. 1857Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art ii. §97 The bribe of wealth and honour warps him from his honest labour into efforts to attract attention. 1882‘Ouida’ In Maremma viii, This narrowness of the peasant mind which..demagogues..warp to their own selfish purpose and profits.
17. a. To distort, wrest, misinterpret, give a false colouring to (a fact, account, etc.). Const. from, to, into.
1717Bentley Serm. bef. K. Geo. 19 Those that interpret all actions of their Governors; that warp the most innocent Occurrences to Censure and Calumny. 1741Watts Improv. Mind i. viii, In matters of dispute, take heed of warping the sense of the..writer to your own opinion. 1775De Lolme Const. Eng. i. x. (1784) 102 Writs, being warped from their actual meaning. 1780Cowper Progr. Err. 437 The worst is—Scripture warp'd from its intent. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxvii, While..you, Mr Poundtext, were warping the Scriptures into Erastianism. 1830D'Israeli Chas. I, III. x. 218 Probably..both [accounts] are warped by the opposite feelings of the writers. 1857Ruskin Pol. Econ. Art §8 We have warped the word ‘economy’ in our English language into a meaning which it has no business whatever to bear. a1872Maurice Friendship Bks. xiii. (1874) 381 A..spirit which would not suffer us to pervert or warp any documents to suit a purpose of ours.
b. intr. Of a statement: To become distorted.
1914Blackw. Mag. July 48/2 Whether all this be true I cannot tell, but as I guess it is an old report that has warped in wandering.
18. a. trans. To turn aside or divert (a moving body) from its path or orbit. Also, to deflect, change the direction of (one's journey). rare.
1725Pope Odyss. iv. 103 Then [I] warp my voyage on the southern gales. 1814Cary Dante, Parad. i. 130 As from a cloud the fire is seen to fall, From its original impulse warp'd, to earth. 1837Emerson Amer. Schol. Wks. (Bohn) II. 178, I had better never see a book, than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit.
b. intr. To turn or incline in a (specified) direction. rare.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 67 There being no more reason why it [an arrow] should warp to the right hand than to the left, why this way rather than that, it must needs stir no way. 1684–94tr. Plutarch's Mor. (1718) III. 16 But as she [the Moon] warps back again to meet her Illustrious Mate, the nearer she makes her approach, the more she is eclipsed until no longer seen.
c. Science Fiction. To travel through space by way of a space warp.
1946F. Brown in Astounding Sci. Fiction May 129/1 The Ark..would warp through space to a point a safe distance outside the Argyle I-II system and come in on rocket power. 1957T. Sturgeon Thunder & Roses 117 Earth was ready for him when he warped in.
†19. fig. (Cf. 14 b, 16.) To receive a ‘twist’ or bias, which influences one's judgement or sentiments; to turn from the straight path; to deviate, swerve, go astray. Const. from. Obs.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. i. i. 15 There is our Commission, From which, we would not haue you warpe. 1642D. Rogers Naaman 550 If we feele..that our hearts warpe from Gods commands. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. 34 He fals off again warping and warping till he come to contradict himselfe in diameter. 1681Baxter Apol. Nonconf. Min. Pref. p. ii, Learned men, when they warp and err. 1738Neal Hist. Purit. IV. 211 Any single officer that should hereafter warp from his obedience. 1748Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. §5. 384 A pleasurable or painful State of the Stomach or Brain, Joy or Grief, will make all the Thoughts warp their own way, little or much. 1791Burke Th. French Aff. Wks. 1842 I. 574 Amongst them there are no leaders possessed of an influence for any other purpose but that of maintaining the present state of things. The moment they are seen to warp, they are reduced to nothing. a1817T. Dwight Trav. (1822) IV. 314 He [Edwards] never warped from the path of common sense.
†b. To be biassed, incline, lean, be drawn or attracted (to, towards). Also, to bend, submit, yield (to); to submit to do something. Obs.
a1592Greene Jas. IV, i. 654, I can no more; my patience will not warpe To see these flatterers how they scorne and Carpe. 1624Gee Foot out of Snare xi. 71 A Gentlewoman..that was well inclining and warping toward the Popish pale. 1643Plain English 17 How miserably will you find the..Clergie wraping [read warping] to the prevailing party. a1661Fuller Worthies, Lond. (1662) 222 Others more truly tax him [Chamnee], for warping to the Will of King Henry the eighth, not so much to decline his own death, as to preserve his Covent from destruction. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 II. 27 Men generally do sute their opinions to their inclinations; warping to that side where their interest doth lie. 1772Fletcher Logica Genev. 34 Our Church far from warping to Crispianity strongly inforces St. James's undefiled religion.
III. To weave, twine.
20. trans.
†a. To weave (a web). Obs.
b. To arrange (threads, yarn) so as to form a warp; to wind on a warp-beam. Also absol.
c1220Bestiary 467 in O.E. Misc. 15 Ðe spinnere..werpeð ðus hire web, and weueð on hire wise. c1340Nominale (Skeat) 336 Homme poet teil perer. M[an] may a webbe warpe. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode ii. cxxiii. (1869) 121 It is furred with fox skynnes in lengthe and in brede, al be it with oute wouen maad, and worpen of the wulle of white sheep. c1440Promp. Parv. 517/1 Warpon', as webstarys, stamino, licio. 1483Cath. Angl. 409/1 To Warpe A web, protelare. 1540R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. i. iii. (1541) 3 b, To spinne, to warpe, or els wynd spindels in a case for to throw wofe of. 1556T. Phaer æneid iv. (1558) K j, Her self the web had wrought, & warpyd fine with wreath of gold. 1598Florio, Ordire, to warpe or lay as weauers do their webbs before it be wouen. 1662Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) 240 The saids proveist, baillies and councill..discharges them..from litting any plaid yairn, and from worping and working any that shall not be of the lenth and breidth abone writtin. 1788Burns ‘My heart was ance’ ii, My mither sent me to the town, To warp a plaiden wab. 1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. i. 42 The yarn is dressed, beamed, and warped by steam-power. 1879T. R. Ashenhurst Weaving 50 The yarn..may be warped direct from the cop or bobbin upon which it has been spun.
†c. fig. To weave, contrive, devise. Also with up, and absol.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 365 He answerde.. þat he wolde warpe suche a webbe to the emperise [talem se telam Augustae orditurum], þat sche schulde nevere have it of to here lyves ende. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. viii. (1869) 179 And alwey he werpeth temptaciouns and breideth þem, and weueth hem. 1549–62Sternhold & Hopkins Ps. lii. 2 Why doth thy minde yet still deuise, such wicked wiles to warpe? 1577Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 393, I haue warpt such a webb, as thou neither knowest to vnframe, or mayst cut off when it is finished. 1604E. Hake in Farr S.P. Jas. I (1847) 256 All these are but the loome That warpeth up my death. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. §22 Like a wise man, that meant to warpe no more then he could well weaue. 1616S. S. Honest Lawyer iii. E 4, We'll trie what mischeefes he can warpe. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 198 Before the contexture of another universal language [than mine] can be warped. 1785Burns 2nd Ep. J. Lapraik viii, Ne'er mind how Fortune waft an' warp.
21. a. Rope-making. To stretch (yarn) into lengths to be tarred.
1815Falconer's Dict. Marine (ed. Burney), To Warp Yarn, in rope-making, is to stretch the yarns, previous to their being tarred, all to one given length. 1846G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. Ser. vi. 197 The reels of yarn are first ‘warped’ into a ‘haul’, that is, the yarns are unwound from the reel, stretched out straight and parallel, and assembled together.
b. To weave, twine (a willow-basket). dial.
1806J. Grahame Birds Scot. i. 67 He..warps the skep with willow rind.
c. To lace together (the ends of a seine). dial.
1835J. Couch in 3rd Rep. R. Cornw. Polytechn. Soc. 74 While the larger boats are engaged in warping the ends together.
†22. To twist, entwine, insert (something into something else). Also fig.; also, to unite or combine with. Obs.
1803W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 256 The public papers and fragments of oratory warped into its text, are selected with taste. 1814Scott Wav. xvi, A scathed tree, which had warped its twisted roots into the fissures of the rock. 1821― Kenilw. xxii, I care not for all those strings of pearl, which you fret me by warping into my tresses. 1822A. Ranken Hist. France IX. 13 With this proposal..was warped..the condition, that the regent, who entertained strong prejudices against the Jesuits, should become their friend and protector.
23. Angling. To fasten (the materials of an artificial fly) to the hook. With adv., as on, in, down, up.
1676Cotton Angler ii. v. 40 Warp them so down, as to stand, and slope towards the bend of the hook, and having warpt up to the end of the shanck [etc.]. Ibid. ii. viii. 73 When you warp on your dubbing. Ibid. ii. viii. 78 Some red warpt in for the Tagg of his tail. 1836Ronalds Fly-Fisher's Entom. 29 Warp the remnant round the shank. 1867F. Francis Bk. Angling xiii. (1880) 465 The silk must be warped up from the tail to required spot. Ibid. 466 When the body is being warped on.
†24. To surround, involve, infold in, with. Obs.
But perhaps a metathetic form of wrap.
14..Medical MS. in Anglia XIX. 79 Ȝif on hyde hymself in a busch þer-of, or ellys he be warpyd weel in his lewys & his braunchys, no thonder nor leuene schall hym towchyn. 1513Douglas æneis i. iii. 33 Lyke as ane wall with sand warpit about. Ibid. v. xiii. 24 His awin heid warpit with a snod olive.
IV. To tow; to move gradually forward.
25. Naut. To move (a ship) along by hauling on a rope or ‘warp’. Also with adv., as out, off, in, round.
1513[see warping vbl. n. 4]. 1587T. Sanders Voy. Tripoli B j b, Then went we to warpe out the Ship. 1600Holland Livy xxii. xx. 444 Those [ships] they drew up, and warped into the deepe, with ropes fastened to their poupes. 1624Capt. J. Smith Virginia iv. 128 Seeing them warp themselues to windward, we thought it not good to be boorded on both sides at an anchor. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 189 The water being smooth I soon warp'd her off again. 1791Smeaton Edystone Lightho. §250 We let go an anchor and warped the buss to her proper birth. 1836Macgillivray Trav. Humboldt xvii. 236 When the current was too strong, the sailors leapt out and warped the boat along. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 292 About the capstan did the shipmen run, Warping the great ship to the harbour mouth. 1881Three in Norway 3 We were warped out of dock about eight o'clock.
b. absol. Also intr. of a ship: To move by warping.
a1547Surrey æneis iv. 791 Out of the rode sone shall the vessell warpe. 1580H. Smith in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 470 At 3. in the afternoone we did warpe from one piece of ice to another. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 158 The Fleete with much difficulty warped in, and recovered the Harbour. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. xiii. 272 As there was but little wind,..they were obliged to warp out of the harbour. 1753Hanway Trav. (1762) I. ii. xxi. 94 They warp thirty..miles in a day against the stream. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes xv, Its width is so contracted at one point, indeed, that they [sc. steamboats] are obliged to warp round by means of a rope. 1843Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 139/1 Two large transporting buoys..for vessels to moor to or warp from. 1858Times 30 Nov. 4/3 The current gets..too strong for sailing ships, which could only warp up. 1913World 25 Feb. 279/1 As she warped slowly from the quay.
c. to warp one's way.
1836Uncle Philip's Convers. Whale Fishery 192 Warping their way with great danger from lane to lane of open water. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. x. (1856) 73 We commenced..to warp our way through the impacted ice.
26. To progress slowly or with effort by using the hands as well as the feet. Also refl., to haul oneself along.
1796Hist. Ned Evans IV. 32 Having fastened another rope round his body for security,..he warped along the first over the chasm. 1849Kingsley Misc. (1859) II. 292, I recollect our literally warping ourselves down to the beach, holding on by rocks and posts. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp-Hunters vii. 58 He slowly warped himself through the gay crowd. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. v. (1857) 88 My rough garments..frayed, at times,..by warping to the tops of great trees, and by feats as a cragsman. 1859H. Kingsley G. Hamlyn xlviii, The first mate, coming forward, warping himself from one belaying-pin to another.
27. intr. To float or whirl through the air. Chiefly poet.
1565in Picton L'pool Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 108 The snow driving and warping to and fro. 1667Milton P.L. i. 341 A pitchy cloud Of Locusts, warping on the Eastern Wind. 1728–46Thomson Spring 120 Oft, engender'd by the hazy north, Myriads on myriads, insect armies warp Keen in the poison'd breeze. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 102 What clouds of ephemeral children are for ever warping away on the wind of death! 1856Bryant Hymn of Sea 10 A hundred realms Watch its broad shadow warping on the wind.
V.
†28. trans. To run (a ship) aground, fix on a shoal or sand-bank. Obs.
1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 634 As that the flude come rynnand by the land, Amang tha schippis warpit in the sand. a1661Sand-warpt: [see sand n.2 10.]
29. a. To choke up (a channel) with alluvial deposit. Also intr., to become choked up.
1745Beverley Beck Act ii. 2 The said beck being now in very great danger of being choaked and warped up. 1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln 284 In case the drains should warp up at any time, provision of sluices is made to let water out of the canal into either, to scour them out clean. Ibid. 287 The rivers warp up in dry seasons to a great height, with a muddy sand or silt, which the tides deposite. 1876Whitby Gloss., Sand-warped, silted up, or choked with sand. 1878Miller & Skertchly Fenland vii. 193 A new sluice was erected for the purpose of warping up the old channel.
b. To heap up (sand) by gradual deposit from a current. ? Obs. Also, to cause (sand) to be heaped up.
1674Marvell Corr. Wks. 1872–5 II. 422 Our House..desiring you to sound once again whether the Sand do continue as when the Captains last surveyed, or it be warped up higher. 1841Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. IV. 395/1 He has lately been occupied in forming a defence, by warping silt, with whin or gorse kids, laid horizontally.
30. To cover (land), by natural or artificial flooding, with a deposit of alluvial soil. Cf. warp n. 6.
1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln 278 They are attempting to warp 400 acres in one piece. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 436 The main canal may be cut..so as to warp the lands on each side of it. 1839Stonehouse Axholme 37 Drains to flood and warp the land. 1867Good Words 306/1 The mud caught by it soon ‘warps’ the space within into firm and rich dry land.
absol.1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln 284 If a landlord warp, it should be deep at once; if a tenant, shallow, and repeat it. 1828Trial of W. Dyon 22 He was warping with his son from four..o'clock. |