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▪ I. wherry, n.1|ˈhwɛrɪ|
Also 5–6 whery(e, 6 wherrye, -ey, where, whirie, whyr(i)e, whyrry(e, -ie, wheary, 6–7 wherie, whirr(e)y, -ie, 7 wheery, 9 whurry.
[Etymology obscure; perh. f. whirr with suggestion of rapid movement.]
1. A light rowing-boat used chiefly on rivers to carry passengers and goods.
1443For. Acc. 21 Hen. VI G dorso (P.R.O.), Vnius Batelle vocate Whery. c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 6 There came suche a winde fro wynchester That blewe these women ouer the ryuer, In wherye. 1534Wriothesley Chron. (Camden) I. 24 For murderinge of two straungers in a wherie in the Thames. 1536MSS. Dk. Rutland (Hist. MSS. Comm.) IV. 277 Payd to Robert Day..for 1 day with his where with my Lady,..viij d. 1555Act 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary c. 16 Preamble, The Whiries & Boates nowe occupied & used and of late tyme made for Rowing upon the said Ryver [Thames]. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 635 He toke a Whirry, and so escaped to London. a1591H. Smith Six Serm. (1594) 83 They tremble for feare, like women that shrike at euery stir in the whirry. 1666Pepys Diary 13 Sept., My pictures and fine things, that I will bring home in wherrys. 1689Wood Life (O.H.S.) III. 302 John Temple..flung himself over a wherry when it was shooting London bridge. 1723Swift Judge Boat 24 Our Boat is now sail'd to the Stygian Ferry, There to supply old Charon's leaky Wherry. 1759Universal Chron. 14–21 July 231/1 Two young fellows going up the Isis in a wherry with a sail, were overset by a sudden gust of wind. 1780Falconer Dict. Marine, Yawl, a wherry or small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars. 1857Dickens Dorrit ii. ix, Nothing moving on the stream but watermen's wherries and coal-lighters. 1861Chamb. Encycl. II. 177/2 The Thames wherry..is stoutly built and is constructed to carry about eight passengers. It is usually managed by one sculler or two oarsmen. 1877Black Green Past. xxvii, Smaller craft—wherries, steam-launches, tenders, and what not.
2. A large boat of the barge kind: see quots. local.
a1589R. Lane in Hakluyt's Voy. 740, I tooke a resolution with my selfe..to enter presently so farre into that Riuer with two double whirries, and fourtie persons one or other. 1691Lond. Gaz. No. 2672/3 Four large Wheries..which we brought..from Dublin, in which were put 150 Granadiers. a1788in Orig. Forty-Five (S.H.S. 1916) 260 They were alarmed by five wherries, the same, as they supposed, that landed the Campbells the night before... The wherries sailed by to the southward without ever stopping. 1829Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 2), Whurry, wherry, a large boat—a sort of barge or lighter. 1857Wright Prov. Dict. s.v., A wherry..on the East-Norfolk and East-Suffolk rivers it is a large sailing boat, carrying from 15 to 35 tons of merchandise. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Wherry,..a decked vessel used in fishing in different parts of Great Britain and Ireland. 1891Daily News 3 Oct. 3/8 A coal wherry belonging to Atkinson, Shields.
3. A large four-wheeled dray or cart without sides. local.
1881[see wherry driver in 4]. 1886Leeds Mercury 1 Apr., One new light Spring Wherry, carry one ton.
4. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 1) wherry-boat, wherry-rower, wherry-slave, wherry-wharf, (sense 2) wherry yacht, (sense 3) wherry-driver. Also wherryman.
1538Fitzherb. Just. Peas 134 Passynge the riuers of Thames or Medwaye by barge or *wheribote. 1600Holland Livy xxv. x, The Captaine..escaped to the key, where he tooke a small barge or whirrie-bote.
1881Instr. Census Clerks (1885) Index 178 *Wherry driver.
c1515Cocke Lorell's B. 11 Bargemen, *whery rowers, and dysers.
1569Jewel Def. Apol. (1571) 202 You maie remember, that Iulius the 2..from a *whearyslaue, not longe sithence became a Pope.
1884‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag xxiv, We reached the *wherry-wharf at Kingston.
1896Daily News 3 June 5/6 At Lowestoft..Dr. Jameson..boarded a *wherry yacht.
Hence ˈwherry v. trans., to carry in or as in a wherry; ˈwherrying vbl. n., the plying of a wherry.
1827Montgomery Pelican Isl. i. 244 Buoyant shells, On stormless voyages..Wherried their tiny mariners. 1902Longm. Mag. Nov. 41, I chucked up th' wherryen' and went deek-drawen'. 1909Daily Chron. 30 Dec. 3/1 [They] are men who have always picked up their living by wild fowling, poaching, wherrying.
▪ II. ˈwherry, n.2 dial.
= wherret n.
1726Vanbrugh Journ. Lond. i. (1728) 14 Somewhat fetcht me such a wherry a-cross the Shins, that dawn came I flop o' my Feace.
▪ III. wherry
obs. var. whirry v. |