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▪ I. wherret, n. Now dial.|ˈhwɛrɪt|
Forms: 6 wheritte, whyrit, -rret, 6–8 whirrit, 6–9 whirret, 7 wheret, -it, 7–9 wherrit, 7– wherret.
[? Echoic.]
A sharp blow; esp. a box on the ear or slap on the face.
1577Kendall Flowers Epigr. 17 b, Thou fearst a pat on pate, or els a whirrit on the eare. 1581Rich Farew. (1846) 208 And with this up with his fiste, and gave Phylotus a sure wheritte on the eare. 1589[? Nashe] Martins Months Minde Ep. Ded. A 2, I haue giuen them both now one Cuffe more: which albeit in truth bee but a whirret. 1621Molle Camerar. Liv. Libr. v. ii. 324 He..gaue one of them such a whirret with his sword-hilts, that [etc.]. 1664[J. Scudamore] Homer à la Mode 25 She striking him two or three wherets O'th ears, tooke hold of's bunch of carrets. 1727‘S. Brunt’ Voy. to Cackl. 67, I returned the Compliment with a Wherret of my Fist, which knock'd him over. 1881Isle of Wight Gloss. s.v., I'll ghee thee a wherret in the chops.
fig.1715C'tess D'Aunoy's Wks. 116 Let her Conduct be never so void of Offence, she cannot shun the Whirrits of their Malice.
b. Comb.: † wherret-stopper, a contrivance on a boat to prevent injury from collision, etc.
1708Constit. Watermen's Co. liii, Owners..shall Mark and Number..Boats, with plain Figures on the Linings on each side, just abaft the Wherrit-Stoppers of every Boat.
▪ II. wherret, v. Now rare.|ˈhwɛrɪt|
[Cf. prec.]
trans. To give a blow or slap to; † occas. transf. with the blow as object. Also fig.
1599Minsheu, Cacheteádo, whirreted on the cheeke. 1678Littleton Lat. Dict. ii. s.v. Pugnus, To box or wherret one. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. vi. 59 Their most considerable Knocks had been..jerked and whirrited within the Curtines of his Sweet-heart. 1711Swift Jrnl. to Stella 30 Sept., The Whigs are in a rage about the peace, but we'll wherret them, I warrant. 1866Whittier Marg. Smith's Jrnl. Prose Wks. 1889 I. 49 The Deacon..seeing him in this way, wherreted him smartly with his cane. |