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单词 wharrow
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wharrown.

/ˈhwarəʊ/
Forms: Also 1500s whar(r)owe, wherrow(e, whorrowe, 1800s worra.
Etymology: By-form of wharve n.
= wharve n. Obsolete exc. dialect (= grooved pulley in spinning-wheel). Also attributive wharrow-spindle (a heraldic bearing).
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?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 794/18 Hoc vertebrum, a aworowylle.]
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xiiii. f. 149v I wotte nat where is my spyndel with the wharowe.
a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 298 Theyr wharrowe, Theyr rybskyn and theyr spyndell.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lxxxviii. 267 The floures be of a light blewe, compassing the stalke by certaine spaces like to garlandes or whorrowes.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball v. xxiii. 579 The roote is rounde lyke a wherrow or wherle, or rather like a litle round appel.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. xxix. 695 The fruite whiche is large, and almost fashioned lyke to a wherrowe or buckler.
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie 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.
1716 S. Kent Gram. Heraldry at Trefuses of Cornwall A Chevron between three Wharrow Spindles Sable.
1825 J. Jennings Observ. Dial. W. Eng. 84 The spill and worra are attached to the common spinning-wheel.
c1828 W. Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss. Wharrow-Spindle is represented in heraldry with a hook at the end, to spin with a distaff.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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