warrenn.1
/ˈwɒrən/, /ˈwɒrn̩/, U.S. /ˈwɔrən/ 1. † c. (free) warren, a right of keeping or hunting beasts and fowls of warren (see 1d). Obsolete.† d. beasts of warren, fowls of warren: see quots. 1598, 1628.
a. A piece of land enclosed and preserved for breeding game. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > gamekeeping > [noun] > enclosing beasts in park > enclosure
park1222
frithc1275
warren1377
chasea1440
game preserve1806
preserve1807
preservatory1823
game reserve1828
α.
β. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 41 It stondeth in a woode named hulsterlo vpon a warande in the wyldernesse.1519 Surtees Misc. (1890) 32 That no man hawke nor hunte wtin my Lord's warraunte.1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. E3 You shall haue some that..will not sticke to pull downe whole townes..and..make them parkes, chases, warrants and I cannot tell what of the same.1702 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 23 1051 Therefore when Orders are given to hunt the Elephants, they pitch upon a convenient place for a Warrant or Park.1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. Prol. 163 Vncoupled þei wenden Boþe in wareine & in waste where hem leue lyketh.
1429 Rolls of Parl. IV. 344/1 Unlaweful hunters of Forestes, Parkes or Warennes, or any other opyn Mysdoers.
a1440 Sir Degrev. 422 He made my londes barreyne, My wodes and my warreyne, My wylde ys away.
c1500 Melusine (1895) xix. 99 Thanne they came out of the wareyne [where they had chased a hart].
1558 in T. Phillipps Index Worcester Wills (c1830) 127 All that part of my Warren of Albourne which lieth within the precincts of Southwood Walke.
1563 in Rymer Fœdera (1719) XV. 629 Keeper of Parks Houses Waranes or other Games of Venerye.
1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. xv. f. 89v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I In Parkes and Warrens we haue nothing else then..the keepers lodge.
1592 Rastell's Expos. Termes Lawes (new ed.) f. 196v/2 Warren is a place priuiledged by prescription or graunt of the Queene for the preseruation of hares, conies, partriges and feasantes or anie of them.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. i. 202 I found him heere as melancholy as a Lodge in a Warren . View more context for this quotation
1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie v. sig. H3v Ile make you take a tree whore,..and then haue you cast, and hung vp ith warren.
a1634 E. Coke Inst. Lawes Eng. (1648) iv. lxxiii. 298 He that hath a Warren within a free Chase may build upon his own inheritance within his Warren a convenient lodge for preservation of his game.
1683 Britanniæ Speculum 17 The Forests, Parks..Warrens, and Woods stored with wild Beasts only for Recreation and Food.
1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 9 A sort of wild Apple, or Crab tree, that grow as thick as Broom in a Heath or Warren.
1700 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 425 I went to..<Marden>, a barren Warren, bought by Sir Ro: Clayton, who..made such alteration by planting.
1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xiii. 175 Being the owner, or keeper, of a forest, park, chase, or warren.
b. transferred and figurative.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C1v Hee goeth hand in hand with Nature, not inclosed within the narrow warrant of her guifts, but freely ranging onely within the Zodiack of his owne wit.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. v. iv. 136 He bid him beat abroad, and not poach up the Game in his Warren . View more context for this quotation
1860 J. S. Mill Consider. Represent. Govt. (1865) 135/2 One people may keep another as a warren or preserve for its own use, a place to make money in.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > [noun] > hunting rights
(free) warren1485
chasea1500
society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > hunting or fishing rights
several fishery1426
piscary1475
(free) warren1485
fishing1495
chasea1500
fugationc1503
piscage1610
fishery1703
shooting1848
shoot1861
rod1898
fishing rights1936
1485 Rolls of Parl. VI. 374/1 The Office of Keping of Woode, in the Lordshipp of Kyrtlyngton, and Keping of Warren of Hares there.
1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 10 §2 The Bailifwike of Toppsam with the Selerage and Cranage and the Waren of Cones within the same.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xixv The Kynge grauntyd to the sayd Cytezyns of Lodon wareyn, that is to meane that ye Cytezyns haue free lybertye of Huntynge certayne cyrcuyte aboute London.
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) 268 Whosoever hath libertie of free warren, maye haue his speciall action of Trespasse at the comon lawe, against anye that shall hunte or chase therein.
a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 13 If I haue free warren in mine owne hand, and let my land for life not mentioning the warren, yet the leasee by implication shall haue the warren discharged and extract during his lease.
1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. iii. 38 Free-warren is a similar franchise, erected for preservation or custody (which the word signifies) of beasts and fowls of warren.
1766 M. A. Porny Elem. Heraldry (1777) iv. 89 Sir John de Chetwynd..had a charter of free-warren through all his demesne.
1810 Sporting Mag. 36 26 Whether the rights of free warren and free chace were conferred.
1875 R. D. Blackmore Alice Lorraine II. xx. 274 I am to have free warren of all Sir Remnant's vast estates.
1913 H. W. C. Davis Regesta Reg. Anglo-Norm. Introd. 31 Grants of free hunting are few in number; even the right of free warren is sparingly granted.
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the world > animals > animals hunted > [noun]
preya1250
wildc1275
felon1297
wild beastc1325
gamec1330
venison1338
venerya1375
chase1393
waitha1400
quarryc1500
gibier1514
wild meat1529
hunt-beast1535
beasts of warren1539
outlaw1599
course1607
big game1773
head1795
meat1851
the world > animals > birds > wild or domestic birds > [noun] > game-bird > collective
fowls of warren1539
feathera1616
fowl1646
wing-game1879
1539 Act 31 Hen. VIII c. 5 A chase..for nourishyng generacion and feeding of beastes of venery, and of foules of waren.
1598 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forrest iv. f. 22v The beasts and foules of Warren are these, the Hare, the Connie, the Phesant, and the Partridge.
1628 E. Coke 1st Pt. Inst. Lawes Eng. 233 There bee both Beasts and Foules of the Warren, Beasts, as Hares, Conies, and Roes..Fowles..as Partridge, Quaile, Raile,..Phesant, Woodcocke,..Mallard, Herne.
2. † c. slang. [Misapprehension of warren variant of warrant n.1] (See quots.)
a. spec. A piece of land appropriated to the breeding of rabbits (formerly also of hares). More fully rabbit-warren (see rabbit n.1 Compounds 1a), coney warren n., hare-warren n.Now usually a piece of uncultivated ground on which rabbits breed wild in burrows.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > gamekeeping > [noun] > place where rabbits/hares kept
clapperc1400
warrena1425
hare-warren1647
rabbit warren1766
rabbitry1838
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > burrow or warren
clapperc1400
cunnigar1424
warrena1425
coneygarth1429
coney-close?1472
coney hole?c1475
berry1486
coney holda1500
coney-clapper1530
coney yard1532
coneyry1570
coney burrow1575
coney gratec1580
coney-gat1591
coney green1599
coney warren1616
coney ground1617
rabbit hole1667
stop1669
rabbit burrow1723
stock1736
rabbit warren1766
stab1838
warrener1864
the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > rabbit pasture
warrena1425
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) i Whan hares be ygete with the kynde of a conynge, as somme ben in the warrayntes [Bodl. MS. wareynes], the houndes lust nor sentith hem nought so wele.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xlviii These children..entred the warrayn of a Lord of Fraunce..& there chased & shotte at Conyes for theyr disport.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Lagotrophia, a warren or parke of hares.
1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. Cvjv Warrens swarminge full of conyes.
1566 Act 8 Eliz. c. 15 §5 In any Parke Warren or Grounde employed to the mayntenaunce of any game of Conyes.
1589 Voy. Sir F. Drake in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. sig. Mmm8 We found the whole Countrey to bee a warren of a strange kinde of Connies.
1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue iii. 114 Whether hath he any Warren of Conies, or Hares.
1697 J. Vanbrugh Relapse ii. 36 Like a young Puppy in a Warren, they have a Flirt at all, and catch none.
1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 17 When company comes, you are not to pop out and stare, and then run in again, like frighted rabbits in a warren.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 66 He poach'd the Wood and on the Warren snar'd.
1850 ‘Sylvanus’ Bye-lanes & Downs iv. 51 After passing..over a warren crenelled like a cullender, and divers stubble fields.
1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 81 The land along the coast [of the Bay of Luce] is a vast warren of rabbits.
b. transferred.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. lvi. 267 Fulvius Hirpinus was the first inventor of warrens as it were for Winkles [L. cochlearum vivaria].
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xix. 470 The holes..enter the ground at a small angle; so that when walking over these lizard warrens, the soil is constantly giving way.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > collateral security > specifically a person
warren1608
pawn1834
pawn-slave1899
1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. E1 He, vpon whose credit this Rabbet-suckers runne, is called the Warren.
1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. E3 Whilst this faire weather lasteth,..These Rabbbet-suckers [sic] keepe to the Warren wherein they fatned.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Warren, he that is Security for Goods taken up, on Credit, by Extravagant young Gentlemen.
3. The inhabitants of a warren; transferred any collection or assemblage of small animals.
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the world > animals > animals collectively > [noun] > of small animals
warren1607
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Lagomorpha (rabbits and hares) > [noun] > family Leporidae > genus Oryctolagus (rabbit) > burrow or warren > inhabitants of
warren1607
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 271 In which, three or foure couple of Hares do quickly multiply into a great warren.
a1625 J. Fletcher Women Pleas'd ii. iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Dddddd3/2 He is so hairie, That a tame warren of flyes frisk round about him.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables cccxxxiii. 291 The Cony..Convenes a Whole Warren; Tells her Story, and Advises upon a Revenge.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxix. 393 It was marvellous..what a perfect warren [of rats] we soon had on board.
4. A building or settlement likened to a rabbit-warren; †a brothel; a building or cluster of dwellings (esp. if partly underground) densely populated by poor tenants. Also, any area of living or office space characterized as a mass of passages and (small) rooms. Cf. rabbit-warren at sense 2a s.v. rabbit n.1 Compounds 1a.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel
houseOE
bordelc1300
whorehousec1330
stew1362
bordel housec1384
stewc1384
stivec1386
stew-house1436
bordelryc1450
brothel house1486
shop?1515
bains1541
common house1545
bawdy-house1552
hothouse1556
bordello1581
brothela1591
trugging house1591
trugging place1591
nunnery1593
vaulting-house1596
leaping house1598
Pickt-hatch1598
garden house1606
vaulting-school1606
flesh-shambles1608
whore-sty1621
bagnioa1640
public house1640
harlot-house1641
warrena1649
academy1650
call house1680
coney burrow1691
case1699
nanny-house1699
house of ill reputea1726
smuggling-ken1725
kip1766
Corinth1785
disorderly house1809
flash-house1816
dress house1823
nanny-shop1825
house of tolerance1842
whore shop1843
drum1846
introducing house1846
khazi1846
fast house1848
harlotry1849
maison de tolérance1852
knocking-shop1860
lupanar1864
assignation house1870
parlour house1871
hook shop1889
sporting house1894
meat house1896
massage parlour1906
case house1912
massage establishment1921
moll-shop1923
camp1925
notch house1926
creep joint1928
slaughterhouse1928
maison de convenance1930
cat-house1931
Bovril1936
maison close1939
joy-house1940
rib joint1940
gaff1947
maison de passe1960
rap parlour1973
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > slum(s)
rookery1824
slum1825
slumdom1882
warren1884
slummery1892
slumland1893
barrack yard1903
tenement yard1914
borgata1929
string slum1939
squatter camp1956
favela1961
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > building of specific internal arrangement > [noun]
pseudodipter1692
pseudodipteron1706
catacomb1884
warren1922
three-decker1942
shotgun1945
triplex1962
bi-level1965
a1649 Duke of Newcastle Country Captaine iii. i And New yeares giftes from soadred virgins and their shee Provincialls whose warren must bee licenc'd from our Office.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Warren,..also a Boarding-school and a Bawdy-house.
1884 Standard 5 June The Conservative party has recognized it in the case of the rookeries with which London still swarms. Will it not do something also for the warrens?
1886 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall Sixty Years After 31 And the crowded couch of incest in the warrens of the poor.
1918 Blackwood's Mag. Jan. 124/1 The marg..is covered with a warren of huts scattered haphazard.
1919 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 693/1 A large passenger steamer..is, as every one who has travelled by water knows, an amazing warren of passages.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 409 Figures wander, lurk, peer from warrens.
1954 J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring i. i. 31 Mr. Frodo left an orphan..brought up anyhow in Brandy Hall. A regular warren, by all accounts.
1977 W. J. Weatherby Home in Dark xxi. 113 It was a house to hide in: you hardly existed in this anonymous warren.
1980 R. Rendell Lake of Darkness iv. 41 A room smaller than this one divided into three... It's a real warren.
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in Britain > London > parts of
vintrya1456
steelyard1474
tower hillc1480
city1556
Bow-bell1600
row1607
gate1723
east end1742
Mayfair1754
garden1763
warren1769
west?1789
the Borough1797
west end1807
Holy Land1821
Belgravia1848
Tyburnia1848
Mesopotamia1850
South Kensington1862
Dockland1904
South Ken1933
Fitzrovia1958
square mile1966
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms at Arcenal de marine A royal dock-yard, with its warren or gun-wharf.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms at Commissaire ordînaire de l'artillerie He keeps a register of all the artillery within the warren where he resides.
1774 Ambulator 223 Woolwich..In the warren or park, where they make trial of great guns and mortars, there are several thousand pieces of ordnance for ships and batteries [etc.].
1805 Ann. Reg. (Otridge's ed.) 400 The ordnance board have signified to general Lloyd who commands the Artillery at Woolwich, that the warren at that place is to be from this time denominated the ‘Royal Arsenal’.
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1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique Warren, a Term in Fishery, being an easy and cheap way, of preserving and storing Fish, in the midst of a River, by making, as it were a Warren, for the Fish to retreat to.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, as warren-hill, warren-rabbit, warren-wall; warren-like adj.
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1700 H. Chauncy Hist. Antiq. Herts. 481 Upon the Warren Hill is an Eccho, which will repeat to a Trumpet twelve times together.
a1742 in Ann. Reg. 1762, ii. 52 I have lived three years in a poor cottage under your warren-wall.
1876 J. Tyndall Ess. Floating Matter of Air (1881) 128 It was the same green hue throughout, though of varying degrees of intensity... In rabbit it was less fine than in hare, and in a tame rabbit less fine than in a warren rabbit.
1889 Fabian Ess. 218 A warren-like scuttle of alarmed..Radicals across the floor of the House of Commons.
1890 ‘Lyth’ Golden South 168 We found ‘New Old Pipeclay’ [diggings] more warren-like than the one we had seen.
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Warrenn.2
/ˈwɒrən/, /ˈwɒrn̩/, U.S. /ˈwɔrən/ Engineering.
Used attributively and † in the possessive to designate a truss designed by Warren, composed of alternately inclined diagonal members joining two horizontal ones, so as to form a series of non-overlapping triangles pointing alternately up and down.Patented by Warren and Monzani in Brit. Patent 12,242 (1848).
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting framework > other specific types
box standard1786
A-frame1827
pegboard1846
Warren1852
pegboarding1960
1852 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 1851–2 11 12 He had only used the simple triangulation for spans not exceeding 60 feet and generally for shallow girders, but he believed that some girders had been made on Captain Warren's plan for much greater spans.]
1852 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 1851–2 11 14 Mr. Brunel..said..it was necessary to draw a distinct line of demarcation between the lattice bridge and that kind of construction called Warren's girder.
1852 Minutes Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 1851–2 11 14 The Warren girder was decidedly superior to the lattice bridge.
1866 B. B. Stoney Theory of Strains in Girders I. vi. 79 This class of bracing includes girders whose web consists of a simple system of triangles, such as ‘Warren's’ Girder.
1911 A. Smith Stresses in Simple Framed Struct. xiv. 83 The Warren truss has a complete system of web members composed..of diagonals.
1952 Archit. Rev. 111 159/2 Where the roof over the drug room joins that over the mill room there is a reinforced concrete Warren girder spanning 64 ft. and 13 ft. deep.
1967 Jane's Surface Skimmer Syst. 1967–8 18/2 The lift fan bay forms part of the plenum chamber, the top skin of which is of Warren girder construction.
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† warrenwarrynadj.
Scottish. Obsolete. rare.
warren tree n. a hard oak. Cf. warried adj., warry adj.1
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > oak and allies > [noun] > unidentified or unspecified type
warren tree1513
escle1577
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. iii. 84 The mekill syllis of the warryn [1710 warren] tre Wyth wedgis and with proppis bene devyd.
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