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▪ I. warple, n. dial.|ˈwɔːp(ə)l|
Forms: 6 pl. warpelles, warples, 7 whaple, 7– whapple, 9 wapple, waffel, warple, worple, wopple.
[Of obscure origin; perh. repr. an OE. *wyrpel or *wierpel f. the root of warp v. Cf. the place-name Warplesdon (Surrey).]
A green lane, a bridle-road. Chiefly in comb. warple-road, warple-way; warple-gate, a gate on a bridle-road (Eng. Dial. Dict.).
1565Extr. Crt. Rolls of Manor of Wimbledon (1866) 128 Ordinacio pro Warpelles. Cum ad ultimam Curiam Generalem hic tentam ordinatum fuit de exponendis, anglice Warples, in Communibus campis de Wimbledon [etc.]. 1658in Sussex Archæol. Coll. (1871) XXIII. 253 One whaple or bridle way sett forth..through the premises leading from Newbridge Mill. 1674Ray S. & E.C. Words 79 A Whapple way, i.e. where a cart and horses cannot pass, but horses only. 1704R. Stapley Diary in Sussex Archæol. Collect. II. 126 Y⊇ great oake yt stood in y⊇ lane, going y⊇ whapple way to Bolney from Hickstead, was cut down. 1860J. W. Warter Seaboard & Down II. 34 You ought to have kept to the wopple road. 1868Gloss. Sussex Words in Hurst Horsham (1889), Whapple-way. A public bridle path, which went through fields, woods, and farms. 1886Law Rep. 31 Chanc. Div. 680 There was an old way or track, formerly known as a warple way, leading from the Uxbridge Road: it was about ten feet wide and was not metalled. 1893Times 21 Mar. 13/3 A..plot of land..bounded on the north and north-west by a cart road or ‘warple way’. Ibid. 13/4 An old ‘warple way’ or easement (i.e., a rough, unmade cart track used..for agricultural purposes, as the removal of crops or conveyance of manure).
▪ II. warple, v. Sc.|ˈwɔːp(ə)l|
Also 8 wraple.
[Of obscure origin; connexion with warp v. or with wrap v. is possible.]
1. trans. To entangle, intertwine. Also fig.
1768Ross Helenore 80 Nory's heart began to cool right fast, Fan she saw things had taken sick a cast, An' sae thro' ither warpl'd [1789, p. 86 wrapl'd] were, that she Began to dread atweesh them, what meith be. 1825Jamieson Suppl. s.v., That yarn's sae warplit, that I canna get it redd. Ibid., Warple v.,..used in a moral sense, to denote the confusion of any business.
2. intr. To move with sinuous movement; also to walk unsteadily.
1768[See warpling vbl. n.]. 1887Service Dr. Duguid iii. iii. 254 Her auld guidman..cam warplin' an' fanklin' owre the muirs by himsel.
3. To twist or wind round. Also fig.
a1870D. Thomson Musings among Heather (1881) 227 Warl's griefs an' cares are unco rife, An' warple roond a body's life. 1890A. J. Armstrong Ingleside Musings 141 They [sc. tawse] warpled roun' his lanky shanks Like snakes aroon' ‘Laocoon’.
Hence ˈwarpled, ppl. a.; ˈwarpling vbl. n., the action of the verb; † warpling o' the green, a rustic game.
1768Ross Helenore i. 10 Whan she among the neiper bairns was seen, At greedy-glad or warpling o' the green, She 'clipst them 'a. 1897‘L. Keith’ Bonny Lady vii. 71 An old quarrel's like warplit wool that cannot be redd in a minute. |