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▪ I. ˈwarping, vbl. n.1
[f. warp v. + -ing1.]
†1. The action of throwing. Obs.
a1150in Archiv. Stud. neu. Spr. CXVII. 27 Iactura, werpinge. 14..Hist. K. Boccus & Sydracke (? 1510) T j b, And whan the fowle is a lofte..With the warpyng of his wynge He doth the ayre a sondre mynge.
2. a. The action of preparing a warp for weaving.
c1440Promp. Parv. 517/1 Warpynge, of webstarys werkynge, staminacio. c1640J. Smyth Lives Berkeleys (1883) I. 167 The charges in the wholl manufactory soe particularly in..spoolinge, warpinge, quillinge..and the like. 1788Burns ‘My Heart was ance’ ii, My mither sent me..To warp a plaiden wab; But the weary, weary warpin' o't Has gart me sigh and sab. 1878A. Barlow Weaving 68 Warping, therefore, consists in arranging the threads according to number and colour, or in any special manner that may be necessary, and to keep them in their relative places after they have been so laid.
b. concr. = warp n. 1. Also in pl., the threads of a warp. ? Obs.
1684R. Waller Nat. Exper. 97 From the sides of these shoot out other small Threads close together like feathers, or Palm branches; these are as it were the first warping, and..they proceed shooting and increasing till the Woofe closes all with a total freezing of the Water. c1817Hogg Conf. Fanatic Tales & Sk. (1837) V. 178 My feet had slipped down through the double warpings of a web.
†3. fig. The action of fabricating or devising, a fabrication. Also gerundial in a-warping (predicatively). Obs.
1583B. Melbancke Philotimus L j, But the Deuill loues al colliers and thou selflike reasons of thine owne warping. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 497 Lampsace..acquainted the Greeks under-hand with this treason, which was a warping against them. 1814Cary Dante, Parad. ix. 50 One Lords it, and bears his head aloft, for whom The web is now a⁓warping.
4. The action of moving a ship from one place to another by means of warps.
1513T. Howard in Lett. & Papers War France (1897) 163, I trust agaynst nyght this W.N.W. wynd will ly, and then we woll forth with warpyng. 1627Capt. J. Smith Sea Gram. viii. 35 His Mate [is to haue] the command of the long boat, for..weighing..an anchor, warping, towing, or moring. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) R r 4, Warping is generally used when the sails are unbent, or when they cannot be successfully employed. 1820Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. I. 310 During five days we persevered in the most laborious exertions, in towing, boring, warping and mill⁓dolling. 1883Man. Seamanship Boys 196 Q. What is warping? A. Transporting a ship from one part of a harbour to another by means of hawsers.
5. a. The process of flooding low-lying land near a tidal river so that the muddy alluvium may be deposited when the water is withdrawn. Also warping up, the process of filling up hollows by deposit of alluvium.
1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln 284 It is not by the canal that the warping is done, but by a soakage drain on each side of it. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 307 By repeating this operation, which is called ‘warping,’ for two or three years, considerable tracts have been raised, in the estuary of the Humber, to the height of about six feet. 1839Civil Engin. & Arch. Jrnl. II. 450/1 It was found necessary to encourage the warping up of the old floor pits, by introducing fascine jetty work, which greatly accelerated the deposit of the sea warp. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. II. 171/2 Warping gives an entirely new surface to soil. It may be best explained as a process by which the suspended mud which occurs in certain rivers is allowed to deposit itself upon a prescribed area of land.
b. concr. The silt or alluvial matter deposited by the sea or a tidal river.
c1440Promp. Parv. 517/2 Warpynge, of the see or oþer water, alluvium.
6. a. The action of twisting or bending, or the fact of becoming twisted or bent; an instance of this.
c1440Promp. Parv. 517/1 Warpynge..of vessel þat wax wronge or avelonge..oblongacio. 1656Artif. Handsom. 60 Who fears to set straight or hide the unhandsom warpings of bow leggs? 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing 27 Letter-Boards are..Clamped..to keep them from Warping. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 445 This may be no more than the natural warping of dry wood. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Builder 221 Casting or Warping, the bending of the surfaces of a piece of wood from their original position. 1873B. Harte Fiddletown 16 The multitudinous small noises, and creakings, and warpings of the vacant house. 1892Photogr. Ann. II. 53 See that the hinged backs of your frames are clamped, and then defy warping.
b. fig. The action of distorting or perverting from the right course or direction, or the fact of deviating or going astray; an instance of this.
1608Dod & Cleaver Expos. Prov. xi–xii. 168 For the same causes it will appeare that the warping of sinfull courses wil turn to their hurt that imagine them. 1656Artif. Handsom. 36 The heart is upright, without any sinfull warpings. 1681Manton Serm. Ps. cxix. 80 (1725) 413 The old Man is not so put off, but there will be many warpings and deceitful workings still. 1709G. Stanhope Paraphrase IV. 271 If these Bents and Warpings of the Will had destroy'd all Freedom in us. 1782Burke Corr. (1844) II. 460 These old warpings of the human heart and understanding. 1838Emerson Addr., Lit. Ethics Wks. (Bohn) II. 212 This starting, this warping of the best literary works from the adamant of nature, is especially observable in philosophy. 1873Spencer Sociol. xvi. 388 The warping of opinion which the bias of patriotism causes. 1884Contemp. Rev. XLV. 28 The mischief done by asceticism was the warping of the moral nature of man.
7. Carpentry. A strengthening brace.
1833Loudon Encycl. Archit. §1070 The trevises..to have angle warpings (braces) 4 inches by 1 inch and a half. Ibid. 1212 The trevises..to have angle spars or warpings (diagonal braces) on each side.
8. Rope-making. (See quots.)
1688Holme Armoury iii. 113/1 Warping, is the laying of so many Thrids or Rope Yarns together, as will make a Rope. 1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 58 Warping is running the yarn off the winches into hauls to be tarred.
9. Angling. The wound thread which attaches the artificial fly to the hook.
1676Cotton Angler ii. v. 40 Where the warping ends, pinch or nip it with your thumb nail against your finger, and strip away the remainder of your dubbing from the silk. 1836Ronalds Fly-Fisher's Entom. 31 A little of the dubbing may be left out in the warping, or picked out of the body with a needle, after the winding or warping, to serve for legs instead of the hackle feather.
fig.1867R. R. Bealey in Country Words 23 Feb. 262 We're nobbut a ‘bundle of habits,’ Teed round wi' a warpin' o' time.
10. attrib. and Comb.
a. In collocations concerned with the ‘warping’ of land, as warping bank, warping clough, warping cut, warping district, warping drain, warping gutter, warping hatch, warping operation, warping sluice, warping works.
b. In names of machines and parts of machines used in the preliminary process of weaving, as warping-bar, warping board, warping-frame, warping-jack, warping-machine, warping-mill, warping-wheel, warping-woof; also warping-room.
1819Rees Cycl., *Warping-Banks.
1813Vancouver Agric. Devon 395 A stripe that measures 31 inches..should be laid in the *warping-bars full 29 yards, and contain 1440 threads. 1885‘C. E. Craddock’ Prophet Gt. Smoky Mts. i. 20 The great frame of the warping-bars on one side of the room.
1910L. Hooper Hand-Loom Weaving iv. 42 Although the *warping board..is very useful for small warps of moderate length,..it would not be convenient for very long warps, or accurate enough for warping several thousands of fine silk threads. 1960G. Lewis Handbk. Crafts 99 The warping board and the mill have the same process in common, the main difference being that when using the board you have to walk backwards and forwards to get your length, whereas when using the mill you revolve it the required number of times.
1819Rees Cycl., *Warping Clough, Hatch, or Sluice.
Ibid., *Warping Cuts, Drains, or Gutters.
1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 436 The business being discontinued in the *warping districts during fresh-water floods.
1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln 280 The aforesaid *warping drains to be 18 feet wide at bottom.
1688Holme Armoury iii. xxi. (Roxb.) 251/1 He beareth Sable, a *warping Frame, Argent. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 112 Apartments for winding the cotton on the large bobbins used for the warping-frame.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Warping-jack.
1819Rees Cycl. s.v. Weaving, The most improved *warping-machines.
1825J. Nicholson Oper. Mech. 399 The silk is now taken to the *warping-mill.
1882Mozley Remin. II. 418 The vast ‘*warping’ operations; that is, the reclamation of marshy land irregularly flooded by the Trent.
1871Daily News 27 Jan., The carding, winding, and *warping rooms at the west end were preserved.
1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln 279 We should recommend a *warping sluice to be built.
1788Burns ‘My Heart was ance’ iv, I sat beside my *warpin' wheel.
1891Labour Commission Gloss., *Warping woof (or bars).
1799A. Young Agric. Lincoln 278 The first *warping works which I viewed were at Morton Ferry.
c. Special comb.: warping-block, a block used by rope-makers in warping off yarn; warping-buoy, a buoy used in warping a vessel; † warping-fat [cf. warpfat], ? = warping-trough; warping-hook, an iron hook for hanging the yarn on when warping into hauls for tarring; warping-post, a strong post used in warping rope-yarn; † warping-stock, † -tree, ? = prec.; † warping-trough (see quot.).
1794Rigging & Seamanship I. 157 *Warping-block.
1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. v. (ed. 2) 137 All *warping buoys are coloured white.
14..Lat.-Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 577/11 Cupatorium, a *worpynfat. 1565Burgh Rec. Prestwick (Maitl. Club) 69 Ane warpene fat, price xijs.
1815Falconer's Dict. Marine (ed. Burney), *Warping-Hook.
1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XVI. 486/1 The other block..is fixed to a firm post, called the *warping post.
1404Nottingham Rec. II. 22, j. *warpyngstok et *warpyngtree. 1588in Aston's Manch. Guide (1804) 24 A warpinge stocke with ryngs and yarne in yt, 00 02 06.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 346/1 He beareth Sable, a Weavers *Warping Trough, Or;... The Weavers Trough is that in which he puts his Clews of Yarn, when he runs them off for Warping.
▪ II. warping, vbl. n.2 nonce-wd.|ˈwɔːpɪŋ|
[As if f. *warp vb., evolved from mouldwarp.]
The mole's action of throwing up earth into mole-hills.
1829J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Nat. 143, I am not aware of any benefit occasioned by their [the moles'] presence; their warpings certainly give our pastures in the spring a very unsightly appearance.
▪ III. warping, ppl. a.|ˈwɔːpɪŋ|
[-ing2.]
That warps or is warped, in senses of the verb.
1598Chapman Hero & Leander vi. 20 Who like a fleering slauish Parasite, In warping profit or a traiterous sleight, Hoopes round his rotten bodie with deuotes. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iii. viii, The warping condition of this greene and foggy multitude. 1631Dekker Match Mee iii. 35 How easie were it, For you to set this warping Kingdome straight? 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 101 A crooked warping line from the angle, above the hill of Jupiter. 1700Dryden Ovid's Met. xiii. Acis etc. 85 More warping than the Willow [lentior et salicis virgis]. a1722Lisle Husb. (1757) 230 Warping beasts and barren heifers..are begun to be fatted with hay from Christmas. 1806J. Grahame Birds of Scot. ii. 143 The swallow..Skims 'long the brook,..Where dance the midgy clouds in warping maze Confused. 1850Marsden Early Purit. (1853) 121 The warping influence of faction. 1875Tennyson Q. Mary i. v, You see thro' warping glasses. |