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warpn.1

Brit. /wɔːp/, U.S. /wɔrp/
Forms: Also Old English wearp, (Middle English werpe, worp), Middle English–1600s warpe.
Etymology: Old English wearp warp in weaving (also used to gloss Latin vīmen osier-twig), corresponds to Old Low German warp (Middle Low German warp , warpe ), Old High German warf , warph , waraf (Middle High German, early modern German warf ) warp in weaving, Old Norse varp neuter, cast of a net, a laying of eggs (Swedish varp neuter, cast of a net, draught of fish, hauling-rope, masculine warp in weaving, Danish varp neuter hauling-rope) < Old Germanic *warpo- , < root *werp- : *warp- to throw: see warp v. Branch IV is probably a new formation on the verb. Sense 6 may possibly represent an unrecorded sense of Old Norse varp: compare -warp in English place-names in Scandinavian districts.
I. Senses relating to thread.
1.
a. Weaving. The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, usually twisted harder than the weft or woof, with which these threads are crossed to form the web or piece.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > threads in process of weaving > [noun] > warp
warpc725
abbeOE
weba1398
warping1684
c725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) S. 563 Stamen: wearp.
OE Riddle 35 5 Wundene me ne beoð wefle, ne ic wearp hafu.
1346 Little Red Bk. Bristol (1900) II. 2 Item quod nulla trama que dicitur ab sit in loco panni vbi stamen quod dicitur warp poni debet.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. xi. 1139 Þey [sc. spiþeres]..strechcheþ þe worp wiþ wonder craft fro þe neþere syde to þe ouere. And draweþ and bryngeth ofte [emended in ed. to efte] aȝein his þreed thwartouer fro poynt to poynt.
c1420 Wyntoun Cron. v. xiii. 5039 Þat þar sulde litil leiff behynde Off warpe or weft to mak hir claythe.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 287/1 Warpe of clothe, chayne de drap.
1613 J. May Declar. Estate of Clothing 26 A common thing it is for the weauer to couer a course warpe with a fine woofe, the warpe beeing spon hard and small, and the woofe soft and round to couer the warpe from sight.
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis vi. 108 Both spread At once their warps, consisting of fine thred, Ty'd to their beames.
1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 189 The Weavers shall be obliged to mount the Warps of their Linen with a sufficient Number of Threads.
1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 219 The warp is now composed of threads of an equal length.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 350 Wire loom... C, the beam or wooden roller, which is turned with a succession of deep grooves, into which the warp is wound, each groove receiving a greater or less number of wires, according to the fineness of the fabric.
1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason xvii. 334 For she herself within her fair-hung room Had set the warp and watched the fine weft glide Up from the roller.
1893 J. T. Taylor Cotton Weaving 55 By having the shed fully open before the shuttle enters the shed, the warp is spread and a good cover put on the cloth.
b. figurative and in figurative context.
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1575 G. Gascoigne Complaint Greene Knight in Posies 179 O weauer, weauer, work no more, thy warp hath done me wrong.
1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Eej v Neither had I this clue of care to worke my warpe vpon.
1679 E. Everard Disc. Protestant Princes 13 By the whole sincere Warp of this History here related, we may see how rash a thing it is to judge of the Actions of a great Prince.
1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. xxi. 348 Sorrow is..the..woof which is woven into the warp of life.
1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 552 He fastens or weaves together the frame of his discourse loosely and imperfectly, and which is the warp and which is the woof is not always easy to determine.
1896 W. Watson in Westm. Gaz. 2 Jan. 2/3 Still, on Life's loom, the infernal warp and weft Woven each hour!
1911 E. C. Selwyn Oracles N.T. iii. 85 Throughout his narrative there is the underlying warp of the Old Testament.
2. Nautical. (See quot.)
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1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 179 Warp, or more properly Woof, is the twine..woven across the knittles in pointing.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 179 Warp of Shrouds, the first given length, taken from the bolster at the mast-head to the foremost dead-eye.
II. Senses relating to rope.
3.
a. Nautical. A rope or light hawser attached at one end to some fixed object, used in hauling or in moving a ship from one place to another in a harbour, road, or river; a warping hawser. †Also (at Ilfracombe), a certain apparatus for hauling in vessels: cf. warp-house n. at Compounds 2).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > rope for warping
warp1296
warp-rope1296
society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rope, cord, or line > types of
warp1296
sewing-rope1336
viring-rope1336
wardrope1338
bast1357
breast rope1412
balk-line1506
waterline1626
shank1706
selvage1711
shroud hawser1744
white line1747
selvagee1750
cringle1787
staple-rope1794
bracing-rope1827
selvage-stropc1860
soga1860
four-cant1867
toggle-lanyard1874
maguey1908
snorter1950
snotter1950
1296 [see warp-rope n. at Compounds 1b].
1342 Cust. Acc. 176/3 (MS.) j cord' pro worp.
1420 in For. Acc. 3 Hen. VI K/2 (MS.) ij hauusers de filo Burdegalie pro Frapelines et Warpe inde faciendis ponderis ciij quart. ix. lb.
1485 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 36 Smalle Warpes..j, Hawsers..xij.
1550 in Acts Privy Council (1890) II. 370 Cables, hawsers, warpes, pitche, tarre.
1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 28, in Bulwarke of Defence No Shippe can sayle without Hempe, & sayle clothes,..yarde lines, warps & Cables can not be made [without it].
1615 in W. Foster Lett. received by E. India Co. (1899) III. 201 We have been much troubled about the getting up of the ship-pinnace for lack of men and warps.
1630 Lex Londinensis (1680) 212 Likewise to have a Warpe of forty fathom to sheer off and give way if any Ship..shall chance to drive upon them.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World ii. 19 I..laid warps to haul into shoal water.
1731 Act 4 Geo. II c. 19 There shall be paid by the Master or Commander of every Vessel, belonging to the Port of Ilfordcombe, who shall make use of the Warp, the Sum of Six Shillings and eight Pence.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxvi. 139 [We] took the warp ashore, manned the capstan [etc.].
1841 B. Hall Patchwork II. 3 An entering..ship is drawn along by a rope, or warp, as it is called.
1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 254 Our discharging was soon over, the warps cast off.
in extended use.1851 Harper's Mag. Sept. 518 Loads are eased down hillsides by the use of..a strong warp taking a bight round a tree and hitching-to one yoke oxen.
b. Trawl-fishing. A rope attached to a net.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > [noun] > ropes on nets
norsel1440
head-roping1615
nostelling1615
warrope1615
way-rope1641
head rope?1748
warp1835
balk1847
trawl-warp1864
ground-rope1874
brail1883
shoreline1887
shore-rope-
1835 J. Couch in 3rd Rep. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Soc. 74 When every thing is favourable, a warp from the end of the stop-sean is handed to the volyer.
1854 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Apr. 362/2 The fishermen beach the boat at the other side of the bay, carry the warp at that end to the further capstan, and prepare to haul.
1883 R. F. Walsh Irish Fisheries 11 Some use stoppers, which extend from the top line downwards to the warps, but these are not so advantageous, as they tend to huddle the net together.
c. Whaling. (See quot. 1897.)
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society > occupation and work > industry > whaling and seal-hunting > whaling > whaling equipment > [noun] > rope or line > attached to harpoon
forerunner1694
striking-line1827
short-warp1851
warp1897
1897 F. T. Bullen Cruise ‘Cachalot’ 226 The second mate had three fish fast..two on ‘short warps’, or pieces of whale-line some eight or ten fathoms long fastened to harpoons, with the other ends running on the main line by means of bowlines round it.
†4. ? A strand of a fishing-line. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > other parts of line
warp1496
linka1609
tought1676
tippet1825
trace1839
tipping1881
1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. hijv Thenne twyne euery warpe one waye and ylyke moche: and fasten theym in thre clystes ylyke streyghte.
III. Senses relating to a group of four.
5.
a. A tale of four (occasionally three or a couple), esp. used of fish and oysters.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > quantity of fish
stickOE
mease1332
warp1436
bind1477
wisp1521
cast1587
strikea1690
turna1690
cran1797
toss1851
swill1894
1436 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1883) II. 156 Item in uno warpe de salt~fyssh.
1509 Market Harb. Rec. (1890) 230 In salt Fyshe xcvij warpe and half.
1533 in Archaeologia 25 523 For ij warpe off lynge & a warpe of codd, viij d.
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. C3v In euery trade and occupation, there is a better and a worse, as there is in euery warpe of fish, a great and a lesse.
1623 Althorp MS. in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) p. lii Mdm That every two fishes of linge, haberdine, & greenfish is one warpe.
a1690 S. Jeake Λογιστικηλογία (1696) 66 Yet at Yarmouth they sell 33. Warpe to the Hundred.
1796 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVII. 69 A hundred [of oysters], as sold by the fishers, contains 33 warp equal to six score and twelve... Four oysters make a warp.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. ii. 47 His honour Monkbarns should never want sax warp of oysters in the season.
1894 H. Caine Manxman v. iii Every man ate his warp of herring.
†b. a warp of weeks, four weeks.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > time > period > a week > [noun] > specific number of weeks
fortnighta1000
(a) fourteen night (rarely fourteen day)a1000
tresemayns1545
a warp of weeks1599
week1680
two-week1900
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 9 Those embenched shelues..where cods & dogfish swomme not a warp of weeks forerunning.
IV. Senses relating to silt or alluvial deposit.
6.
a. Alluvial sediment deposited by water; silt. Sometimes artificially introduced over low-lying land, and sometimes occurring as a stratum in soil.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun]
siltc1440
warpingc1440
slitch?a1475
sleech1587
alluvium1665
sediment1685
sullage1691
warp1698
wash1707
washing1707
alluvion1731
silting1739
warp land1794
alluvial1818
siltage1876
flood-loam1880
putty1883
1698 A. de la Pryme Diary (1870) i. 184 In the digging of the well..they found..three yard sand, one foot fine warp.
1698 A. de la Pryme Diary (1870) App. 314 Ye muddy waters of ye Don and Idle..deposited so much silt and warp that they made a great deal of high land on both sides of their streams.
1798 Trans. Soc. Arts 16 179 Greatly improved by a sediment or mud (commonly called warpe) from the river Dun.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 435 The tide is let in at high water to deposit the warp or enriching substance.
1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 25 At Althorpe, in sinking wells, eight or ten feet of warp have been dug through, then one or two feet of sand, and then warp again.
1865 W. White Eastern Eng. II. 38 Bog..converted into corn-fields, by spreading over them the warp or muddy deposit dug from an old river~bed.
1894 Athenæum 9 June 744/3 The evidence of their antiquity rests, therefore, upon their geological position under the contorted drift otherwise called ‘warp and trail’.
b. A bed or layer of this. See also quot. 1867.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > stratum by constitution > alluvial sediment
warp1678
silt1881
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Warp, a Shole, that beginning near the Buoy of Oar-hedge, comes out of the Swin up the River.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Warp,..land between the sea-banks and the sea.
1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh II. 87 He would gallop like mad down the warps.
1872 A. C. Ramsay Physical Geol. & Geogr. Great Brit. (ed. 3) 107 Covered..with an oozy loam like the warps of the Wash and the Humber.
V. Senses relating to a twist or inclination.
7.
a. A twist or bending, esp. in wood not properly dried; also the state of being warped or twisted.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > [noun] > twist or bend
warp1668
the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [noun] > action or fact of putting or being out of shape > distortion > twisting and bending > instance or result of
warp1668
warpage1950
1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. ii. ix. §4. 243 Bending, bow, warp, crooke.
1679 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 3) xxvii. 143 The Wind-shock is a bruise, and shiver throughout the Tree, though not constantly visible, yet leading the Warp from smooth renting, caused by over-powerful Winds, when young.
1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. ix. 295 A warp in the glass made him look as if he had taken poison.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage xviii. 329 Those [ships] which were newly built he laid up for the winter in dry docks..that their unseasoned timbers might warp or leak in a place where a warp or leak would not be fatal to them.
1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross I. iv. 37 Ah, it is a little on the warp, I fear.
b. An inclination or set in growing trees or bushes caused by the wind.
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1895 Cent. Mag. Sept. 677/2 When the wind beats up the peak, which it sedom does, as may be seen by the warp of the pines and tamaracks.
8.
a. figurative. A perversion or perverse inclination of the mind; a mental twist; a wrong bias.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [noun] > a perverse inclination or act
wrong-headedness1748
warp1764
squint1774
blind spot1864
1764 ‘G. Psalmanazar’ Memoirs 41 An unchristian warp of the will.
1786 H. More Florio 44 A little warp his taste had gain'd.
1830 Examiner 615/1 One of the author's warps was against..Utilitarians.
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xlv. 446 Mr. Dombey..is so prone to pervert even facts to his own view, when he is at all opposed, in consequence of the warp in his mind, that he [etc.].
1875 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera V. liii. 121 All the teaching of God..is not only mysterious, but, if received with any warp of mind, deceptive.
a1878 S. Bowles in G. S. Merriam Life & Times S. Bowles (1885) II. 337 Somebody in Berkshire, I fancy, had warped his mind against you, and no mind is more capable of warps than his.
b. Science Fiction. = space warp n. at space n.1 Compounds 4.
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the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [noun] > action or fact of putting or being out of shape > distortion > twisting and bending > instance or result of > imaginary distortion of space-time
warp1936
1936 Astounding Stories June 30 AKKA is the symbol for humanity's secret weapon. Its user, with simple instruments, can destroy any object in the universe—by so altering the warp of space that neither matter nor energy can exist.
1954 Galaxy Aug. 80/2 Halfway between Earth and Venus there was a sudden shimmer as the Vegan ship slipped out of warp into normal space.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
a. (In sense 1.)
warp edging n.
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1888 Daily News 9 July 2/7 Irish crochet trimmings and warp edgings are dull of sale.
warp line n.
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1879 T. R. Ashenhurst Pract. Treat. Weaving & Designing Textile Fabrics 110 The Warp Line.
warp machinery n.
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1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 390/2 Fabrics produced by Warp Machinery.
warp-mill n.
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1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1284 One-sixth of that number of bobbins is usually mounted at once in a warp mill.
warp-roller n.
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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 411 These rods are at different periods moved towards the warp-roller B.
warp-scouring n.
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1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. iv. 130 A process of ‘warp-scouring’ in which the warp, after being washed, is squeezed between rollers.
warp-spinner n.
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1634 MS Canterbury Marriage Licences Robert Wood of Salehurst in Sussex, warpe spinner.
warp-thread n.
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1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 741/1 The warp thread proceeding from the lower roller.
warp-twist n.
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1851 Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. p. vi** The long threads are called the warp-twist, or organzine.
warp-yarn n.
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1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 110 This mill spins warp yarn by throstles, weft yarn by mules.
b. (In sense 3.)
warp-anchor n.
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1699 T. Allison Acct. Voy. Archangel 12 I..carried both the Kedge Anchor and Warp Anchor ashore.
warp-rope n.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > rope for warping
warp1296
warp-rope1296
1296 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/5/20) m. 4 b j. Boulyn, j. Warperape, iijes Cabule.
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 115 Hawser cald warp rope.
c. (In sense 6.)
warp-bank n.
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1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 166 Mr. Webster..has it [lucerne] drilled; and very luxuriant the first year, on a warp bank.
warp land n.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > sediment or alluvium > [noun]
siltc1440
warpingc1440
slitch?a1475
sleech1587
alluvium1665
sediment1685
sullage1691
warp1698
wash1707
washing1707
alluvion1731
silting1739
warp land1794
alluvial1818
siltage1876
flood-loam1880
putty1883
1794 I. Leatham Gen. View Agric. E. Riding Yorks. 11 Along the side of the Ouse and Humber we find a considerable quantity of warp land.
warp loam n.
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1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 9 Beyond this..is a very rich warp loam of various description.
C2. Special combinations:
† warp-bar n. Obsolete some kind of appendage to a loom.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > warping bar
warp-bar1538
warping-bar1808
whip-roll1863
back-rest1894
warping board1910
1538 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 200 Unum wollenlome cum ryngrathes, warpbarres et spoyle whele.
warp-beam n. the roller on which the warp is wound and from which it is drawn as the weaving proceeds.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > beam > for warp
yarn-beam1598
yarn-roll1831
warp-beam1845
1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 734/2 B is the warp beam, or that on which the warp is first wound.
warp-dresser n. (a) = warper n. 2; (b) a machine for sizing yarns for the loom (Knight).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture of thread or yarn > [noun] > winding > one who > in preparation for weaving
warper1611
warp-dresser1851
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > preparing warp > one who
warper1611
warp-dresser1851
slayer?1881
1851 in Inquiry, Yorks. Deaf & Dumb (1870) 45 William Sutton, warp-dresser.
† warp-faced adj. Obsolete having distorted features.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > types of face > [adjective]
flatc1400
hardc1400
low-cheeredc1400
large?a1425
ruscledc1440
well-visagedc1440
platter-faced1533
well-faced1534
full-faced1543
fair-faced1553
bright-faceda1560
crab-faced1563
crab-snouted1563
crab-tree-faced1563
long-visaged1584
owlya1586
wainscot-faced1588
flaberkin1592
rough-hewn1593
angel-faced1594
round-faced1594
crab-favoured1596
rugged1596
weasel-faced1596
rough-faced1598
half-faced1600
chitty1601
lenten-faced1604
broad-faced1607
dog-faced1607
weaselled-faced1607
wry-faced1607
maid-faced1610
warp-faced1611
ill-faceda1616
lean-faceda1616
old-faceda1616
moon-faced1619
monkey-faced1620
chitty-face1622
chitty-faceda1627
lean-chapt1629
antic-faced1635
bloat-faced1638
bacon-facea1640
blue-faced1640
hatchet-faced1648
grave1650
lean-jawed1679
smock-faced1684
lean-visaged1686
flaber1687
baby-faced1692
splatter-faced1707
chubby1722
puggy1722
block-faced1751
haggard-looking1756
long-faced1762
haggardly1763
fresh-faced1766
dough-faced1773
pudding-faced1777
baby-featured1780
fat-faced1782
haggard1787
weazen-face1794
keen1798
ferret-like1801
lean-cheeked1812
mulberry-faced1812
open-faced1813
open-countenanced1819
chiselled1821
hatchety1821
misfeatured1822
terse1824
weazen-faced1824
mahogany-faced1825
clock-faced1827
sharp1832
sensual1833
beef-faced1838
weaselly1838
ferret-faced1840
sensuous1843
rat-faced1844
recedent1849
neat-faced1850
cherubimical1854
pinch-faced1859
cherubic1860
frownya1861
receding1866
weak1882
misfeaturing1885
platopic1885
platyopic1885
pro-opic1885
wind-splitting1890
falcon-face1891
blunt-featured1916
bun-faced1927
fish-faced1963
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. S5v A weather beaten warp-faced fellow.
warp-farmer n. a farmer who uses ‘warp’ on his land.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > fertilizing with mud > one who
warp-farmer1799
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 278 A considerable warp farmer told me, that the stiffer warp was the best.
warp-frame n. = warp-machine n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > lacemaking > machine
warp-frame1845
Levers1865
warp-net frame1875
1845 P. Barlow Manuf. in Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 740/2 The warp frame.
† warp-house n. Obsolete at Ilfracombe, the building containing the apparatus for hauling vessels.
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society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > [noun] > by hauling on ropes > building containing apparatus
warp-house1731
1731 Act 4 Geo. II c. 19 Preamble, The Warp and Warp-house by long Usage gone to Decay.
1742 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 3) II. 13 The Warp-house, Light-house, Pilot-boats, and Taw-boats belonging to the Port [sc. Ilfracombe].
warp-lace n. a kind of lace having threads so placed as to resemble the warp of a fabric; also attributive.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > consisting of loops or looped stitches > lace > other types of
masclea1425
pomet1582
loop-lace1632
colbertinea1685
coxcomb1693
trolly-lolly1693
trolly1699
piece lace1702
mignonette1751
web lace1795
guard-lace1804
Antwerp lace1811
warp-lace1812
cardinal lace1842
guipure1843
run lace1843
Shetland lace1848
lacis1865
pot lace1865
reticella1865
tape guipure1865
quadrille1884
reticello1895
tambour-lace1899
rosaline1900
ring net1901
tracing-lace1901
shadow lace1914
1812 Ann. Reg., Chron. 30 Others..demolished five warp-lace frames.
1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xiv. 105 Another similar article, called ‘warp lace’.
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warp-machine n. a lace-making machine having a thread for each needle employed (Knight).
warp-net frame n. = warp-machine n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > lacemaking > machine
warp-frame1845
Levers1865
warp-net frame1875
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Warp-frame or Warp-net Frame.
warp print n. = shadow print n. at shadow n. Compounds 2a.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > double faced > specific
warp print1916
shadow-tissue1920
shadow-print1926
1916 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 23 July 8/7 This offering comprises Fancy Ribbons in warp-print, Dresden, Pompadour and novelty stripe and plain effects.
1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 246 Shadow or Warp print. The warp yarns are printed with the design before weaving, giving a shadowy print effect.
warp-printed adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > treated or processed in specific way > [adjective] > other
waulked1490
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gummed1598
green1727
greige1835
limp1866
print1883
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sueded1888
satinized1891
crushed1895
beaver-finished1909
Schreinered1929
pre-boarded1940
permanent press1944
perma-pressed1951
perma-press1956
warp-printed1957
stabilized1960
1957 Times 16 Sept. 11/1 The short dress..is in white satin with a small warp-printed design in black.
warp-river n. a river depositing ‘warp’.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > types of river > [noun] > specific
headwater1535
Sabbatical river1613
salt river1659
tide-river1739
river pirate1743
salmon river1753
artery1787
warp-river1799
feeder1825
lost river1843
banker1848
tidal river1877
pirate1889
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 277 No floods in the countries washed by the warp rivers bring it [the muddy water].
warp-slat n. = slat n.1 5a.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from other vegetable fibres > [noun] > randed work or basketry > foundation or skeleton
slat1837
slath1875
warp-slat1907
1907 C. Hill-Tout Brit. N. Amer., Far West vi. 115 To give the bottom [of the basket] the ovaloid form, which most have, the warp-slats are trimmed to the desired shape before the weft strand is woven into them.
warp-stitch n. (see quot.).
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > stitch > other
chain-stitch1598
French knot1623
picot1623
petty-point1632
tent-stitch1639
brede-stitch1640
herringbone stitch1659
satin stitch1664
feather-stitch1835
Gobelin stitch1838
crowfoot1839
seedingc1840
German stitch1842
petit point1842
long stitch1849
looped stitch1851
hem-stitch1853
loop-stitch1853
faggot stitch1854
spider-wheel1868
dot stitch1869
picot stitch1869
slip-stitch1872
coral-stitch1873
stem stitch1873
rope stitch1875
Vienna cross stitch1876
witch stitch1876
pin stitch1878
seed stitch1879
cushion-stitch1880
Japanese stitch1880
darning-stitch1881
Kensington stitch1881
knot-stitch1881
bullion knot1882
cable pattern1882
Italian stitch1882
lattice-stitch1882
queen stitch1882
rice stitch1882
shadow-stitch1882
ship-ladder1882
spider-stitch1882
stem1882
Vandyke stitch1882
warp-stitch1882
wheel-stitch1882
basket-stitch1883
outline stitch1885
pointing1888
bullion stitchc1890
cable-stitchc1890
oriental stitchc1890
Turkish stitchc1890
Romanian stitch1894
shell-stitch1895
saddle stitch1899
magic stitch1900
plumage-stitch1900
saddle stitching1902
German knot stitch1903
trellis1912
padding stitch1913
straight stitch1918
Hungarian stitch1921
trellis stitch1921
lazy daisy1923
diamond stitchc1926
darning1930
faggot filling stitch1934
fly stitch1934
magic chain stitch1934
glove stitch1964
pad stitch1964
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 195 Warp Stitch, an Embroidery Stitch used when threads are drawn away from the material to form the pattern. Warp stitch consists of drawing away the threads that form the weft, or cross the material, and leaving the warp or lengthways threads.
warp-wire n. one of the lengthwise wires in a wire-loom.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > other types of loom > parts of
warp-wire1833
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 351 The warp-wires being made to change positions by means of the treadle.

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warp factor n. Science Fiction (originally in the U.S. television series Star Trek), the degree to which the velocity of a spaceship, etc., exceeds the speed of light; the level of warp speed; frequently used attributively with number, as warp factor two (three, etc.); also in extended use.
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1968 S. E. Whitfield in S. E. Whitfield & G. Roddenberry Making of ‘Star Trek’ ii. ii. 191 Star Trek solves the problem by measuring all faster-than-light speeds in terms of ‘Warp Factors’. Warp Factor One is the speed of light. Warp Factor Three is 24 times the speed of light.
1974 J. Blish Star Trek 10 84 Let's take her out. Warp factor two.
1985 L. Choyce Avalanche Ocean (1987) i. 60 It seemed now that we had increased our speed to warp factor five but, of course, that was just because we were cruising along.
1993 What Hi-Fi? Oct. 45/3 And if you're after warp factor 10 bass, use heavy gauge stranded speaker cables, not a solid core.
2001 RCM & E (Radio Control Models & Electronics) Mar. 59/3 Speed junkies might have difficulty in controlling a model that isn't going at warp factor 6.

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warp speed n. Originally Science Fiction (popularized by the U.S. television series Star Trek; quot. 1977 is from a novel based on the series), a (hypothetical) faster-than-light speed, attained by a spaceship with a propulsion mechanism capable of manipulating space-time (see space warp n. at space n.1 Compounds 4); (also, in extended use) an extraordinarily high speed.
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1968–9 J. L. Arosete All our Yesterdays in Star Trek (television script) Beam us up. Maximum warp as soon as we are on board.]
1977 S. Marshak & M. Culbreath Price of Phoenix xxi. 136 I would feel better if we could head out at warp speed.
1979 G. Roddenberry Star Trek: Motion Picture 101 ‘Engineer,’ Kirk persisted, ‘we need warp speed now!’
1980 Aviation Week & Space Technol. (Nexis) 4 Aug. ‘That would place Los Alamos at a point to move at warp speed to particle-beam weapons energies’, one Pentagon official explained.
1991 Chicago Tribune 4 Nov. iv. 8/1 The strip's barbs may still zing the establishment, but its marketability reached warp speed long ago.
1993 Outdoor Canada May 19/3 Almost immediately, a six-pound lake trout swam a warp-speed figure eight around the lure and swallowed it.
2000 N.Y. Times 30 Oct. c12 (advt.) It's also the future-proof platform to keep your business moving at warp speed tomorrow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

† warpn.2

Thieves' cant. Obsolete.
(See quots.)
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > [noun] > keeping watch while another acts > one who keeps watch while another acts
warp1591
nit-keeper1893
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. B In Courbing Law. He that hooks, the Courber. He that watcheth, the Warpe.
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. E3v When he..spyes any fat snappings worth the Curbing, then streight he [the Courber] sets the Warp to watch, who hath a long cloak to couer whatsoeuer he gets.
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. E4.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

warpv.

Brit. /wɔːp/, U.S. /wɔrp/
Forms: Past tense and participle warped /wɔːpt/. Forms: Old English weorpan, wurpan, wyrpan, Middle English werpen, ( Orm. werrpenn), Middle English weorpen, wearpe, worpe(n, Middle English warpen, Middle English–1500s werp(e, wrappe, Middle English warpyn, warpon, Middle English–1500s Scottish varp, 1600s Scottish worp, Middle English–1600s warpe, Middle English– warp. past tense singular Old English wearp, Old English Northumbrian, Middle English warp, ( Orm. warrp), Middle English weorp, Middle English werp, Middle English warpe, wrappe; plural Old English wurpon, Northumbrian worpon, worpun, Middle English wurpen, worpen, weorpen. past participle Old English, Middle English worpen, Middle English ( i)worpe, Orm. worrpenn, 1500s Scottish warp. Also past tense and past participle Middle English–1500s warpid, werpid, werpit, werpet, Middle English– warped.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: A Common Germanic strong verb: Old English weorpan (wearp, wurpon, worpen) corresponds to Old Frisian werpa (worp, wurpon, ewurpen), Old Saxon werpan (warp, wurpun, worpan), Dutch werpen (wierp, worpen), Old High German werfan (warf, wurfun, worfen), Middle High German, modern German werfen (warf, wurfen, geworfen), Old Norse verpa (varp, urpu, orpenn), Swedish verpa, Danish verpe, Gothic wairpan (warp, waurpum, waurpans); < Old Germanic root *werp- (warp-, wurp-) < pre-Germanic *werb-; the root is not found outside Germanic. The strong conjugation did not survive in English later than the 15th cent.
I. To cast, throw.
†1.
a. transitive. To project through space; to cast, throw, fling. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)]
warpc888
torvec1000
castc1230
slingc1290
forthcasta1300
throwc1300
lancec1330
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routc1400
waltc1400
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vire1487
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hurl1563
toss1570
kest1590
picka1600
peck1611
jaculate1623
conject1625
elance1718
squail1876
tipple1887
bish1940
biff1941
slap1957
welly1986
the world > movement > impelling or driving > impel or drive [verb (transitive)] > violently > into a place or condition
warpc888
shoveOE
casta1225
frushc1380
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. vii. §3 Ða hine mon on þæt fyr wearp þa alysde ic hine mid heofonlicon rene.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) vii. 6 Ge ne wurpen eowre meregrotu toforan eowrum swinum.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10488 & werrpenn all þe chaff anan. Inn till þe fir to bærnenn.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 297 Me warpeð grickisch fur up on his famen.
c1250 Owl & N. 768 Mid liste me may walles felle & werpe [v.r. worpe] of horse knyhtes snelle.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 8699 Al swa feor swa a mon mihte werpen ænne stan.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1061 He warp þe ston Ouer þe laddes euerilkon.
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 7517 Alle naked hym-self he wrappe Among þe þornes þat were sharpe.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. 4743 Þe wardane gert his wrichtis syne Set vp richt stoutly ane ingyne, And warpit til þe toure a stan.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 21932 Yiff I hadde wrappyd the, Nakyd, cast the vp and doun In thornys for thy savacioun.
c1480 (a1400) St. Paul 344 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 39 Sanct paulis hed eftir his discese In a depe vewar warpit was.
1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid i. Prol. 280 And bot my buik be fundin worth sic thre, Quhen it is red, do warp it in the se.
1571 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Morall Fabillis (Bassandyne) 117 Now on the quheill, now wrappit [?a1500 wappit] to the ground.
†b. with adverb, as down, up, out, away. Obsolete.
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c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 27 Gang to þære sæ, and wurp þinne angel ut [L. mitte hamum].
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16040 Þurrh þatt he warrp ut i þe flor Þe sillferr & te bordess.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2535 Awei he warp his gode breond.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 15875 His staf ful sleyly vp he warp.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 642 He had bene tane but dout, Na war it that he warpyt owt All that he had, him lycht to ma.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13412 He..warpet ouer-burde Mikill riches & relikes reft fro the toune.
†c. To cast (lots). Obsolete.
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c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxvii. 35 Hig todældon hys reaf, and wurpon hlot þær-ofer [L. sortem mittentes].
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7734 Þe king..bad heom leoten weorpen [c1300 Otho werpe].
†2. To sprinkle, scatter (something) on (a surface). Also with out: To cause to spirt; to emit, shoot forth. Obsolete.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of sprinkling > sprinkle liquid or something with liquid [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle something with liquid
warpc1000
superfuse1657
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle
warpc1000
sprengeOE
strenkc1175
springa1387
bespring1387
sprinkc1390
sprinklea1400
strinklec1400
springle?a1425
sprinkle?a1425
sprainc1440
bespreng1496
oversprinkle?1548
overstrew1570
besprent1573
insperse1587
insperge1599
asperse1607
besprink1609
disparple?1615
spark1637
swiggle1683
twirl1763
sparkle1787
bespatter1813
spray1829
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > eject
warpc1000
wreaka1300
out-throwa1393
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shootc1400
spitc1400
deliver?a1425
outflingc1450
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bolka1522
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spew1605
eject1607
ejaculate1609
spew1610
to cast out1611
throw1625
eructate1632
gullop1646
explode1660
to throw off1660
belch1668
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 240 Dweorge dwostlan weorp on weallende wæter.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 41 Seodðan he him sceaude an ouen on berninde fure he warp ut of him seofe leies.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 129 Þurh þisse tacne Moyses werp ut þet welle weter of þan herda flinte.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 161 Hie wenden þe eorðe and wurpen god sad þaronne.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 180 As ofte as þe feont asailleð ower castel..warpeð ut up on him scaldinde teres.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 2255 Me warp on his nebbe. cold welle-watere.
†3.
a. With up, open, wide, on brede: To open (a gate) violently or suddenly, fling open. With to: To shut, slam. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > throw open
warpc1000
to-thrustc1175
to waive up1377
upcastc1425
to wap widec1440
to throw upa1500
to fling open1587
to cast open1633
to fling wide1847
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close (a door, window, etc.)
shutc1000
steek?c1225
makec1300
speara1325
yark toc1400
to shut toc1450
to put toa1500
warpc1540
enclose1563
to pull to1673
dub1753
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints iii. 347 Þa com færlice mycel wynd and wearp upp þa duru.
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 1526 Þus atired he þe toune & titely þar-eftir On ilka way wid open werped he þe ȝatis.
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 2142 Ȝa, werpis þam [the gates] vp..& wide open settis.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. i. 1 On breid, or this, was warp and mayd patent The hevynly hald of God omnipotent.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xii. x. 80 Sum bad..Warp vp the portis, and wide the ȝettis cast To the Troianis.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10462 Þai wan in wightly, warpit to þe yates, Barrit hom full bigly with boltes of yerne.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 11924 When the buernes of the burgh were broght vpon slepe, He warpit vp a wicket.
†b. intransitive. Of a door: To open (wide, etc.).
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > become open [verb (intransitive)] > of a door, gate, etc.
warpa1375
snick1963
a1375 Joseph Arim. l. 257 He bad him lifte vp and þe lide warpes.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. i. 118 Bot thow do, thir gret durris..sall nevir warp on breid.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. ii. 2 The hundreth gret durris..At thair awin willis warpit wyde.
†4. transitive. To put (a garment) on or off hastily.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > put on > in hasty or careless manner
warpa1400
to throw ona1450
slip?a1513
slip1590
to steal on1649
huddle1697
slive1820
scuffle1844
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > undressing or removing clothing > undress or remove clothing [verb (transitive)] > take off clothing
to do offeOE
to lay downc1275
to weve offc1290
stripc1320
doffa1375
loose1382
ofdrawa1393
casta1400
to take offa1400
warpa1400
to cast offc1400
to catch offc1400
waivec1400
voidc1407
to put off?a1425
to wap offc1440
to lay from, offc1480
despoil1483
to pull offc1500
slip1535
devest1566
to shift off1567
daff1609
discuss1640
to lay off1699
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douse1780
shuffle1837
derobe1841
shed1858
skin1861
peel1888
pull1888
a1400 Pistill of Susan 124 Þe wyf werp of hir wedes vn-werde.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 901 Sir Arthure..Wente to hys wardrope, and warpe of hys wedez.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2025 Whyle þe wlonkest wedes he warp on hym-seluen.
†5.
a. To throw down, overthrow. Usually with adverb, as down, under, to ground. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low > cast down
warpc1175
acastc1225
to throw downa1250
foldc1275
casta1300
throwc1330
waltc1400
shootc1480
to cast down1530
to fling down1587
stern1599
deject1627
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 7 Þu warpest þene alde feont.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3575 Forr crist wass strang wiþþ hannd inoh To werrpenn dun þe deofell.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14336 Mine wiðer-i-winnen weorpeð heom to grunden.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12921 Þæs bures dure he warp adun þat heo to-barst a uiuen.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2640 Ðe child it warp dun to de [read ðe] grund.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 6683 We schal of hem to grounde warpe With swordes bryght and speres scharpe.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1297 The Troiens..Wondid of þe wightist, warpide hom vnder.
†b. Of wind: To toss or drive (a ship) violently about. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (a blast) (of the wind [verb (transitive)] > blow about violently
warpc1400
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 444 As þat lyftande lome luged aboute, Where þe wynde & þe weder warpen hit wolde.
†c. ? To swing round, whirl. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > revolution or rotation > revolve or rotate [verb (transitive)] > whirl
whirl?a1400
warp1513
worlc1530
hurl1590
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xi. 103 And oft about hyr hed..[she] Wald warp the stringis of the stowt staf slyng.
†6. figurative.
a. To drive out, expel, reject, renounce; usually with out, away. Also, to trample (under foot). Obsolete.
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the mind > language > statement > refusal > [verb (transitive)] > reject
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forwerpeOE
warpc1000
nillOE
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to throw awaya1382
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waivec1386
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reluctate1668
negative1778
no-ball1862
basket1867
to set one's foot down1873
not to have any (of it, that, this)1895
to put down1944
eighty-six1959
neg1987
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel
afferreOE
warpc1000
outdriveOE
wreakc1100
to cast out1297
to cast fortha1382
out-chasec1395
flecchea1400
to shoot forth, out, awaya1400
propel?1440
expulse?a1475
scour1488
out-thrust1532
to catch forthc1540
propulse1548
pulsec1550
unplant1552
to turn out of ——1562
extrude1566
detrude?1567
eliminate1568
deturbate1570
detruse1571
unroost1598
to put by1600
deturb1609
bolt1615
run1631
disembogue1632
out of1656
expel1669
rout1812
to manage (a person) out of1907
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 37 Ic ne weorpe ut [L. non eiciam foras] þone þe to me cymð.
a1225 Leg. Kath. 829 Sone se ich awei warp ower witlese lei.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 262 Warp awei from me alle mine gultes.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 169 Þe deouel þet ure lauerd weorp ut of amon.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 33 Ȝef me warpe wið him alþe world vnder fet.
c1230 Hali Meid. 5 Þeos þohtes warp ut of þin heorte.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 24247 Nu comforth þe..And werp awai þi wepe.
†b. To plunge (a person) suddenly or roughly (into prison, distress, etc.); to put to death. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 143 Þe sunfulle Men..sculen beon iwarpen ine eche pine.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 19608 He let bindenn himm...& i cwarrterrne werrpenn.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxiii. 300 Thou art warpyd all in wo And spred here on a tre Full hee.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10973 Mony worthy þai woundit, & warpit to dethe.
c1590 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 17 Dreid of dainger varps hir in ane trans.
†7.
a. intransitive. To go hastily, fling away. Of wind: To rise up. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > hastily or suddenly
fleec825
warpa1400
wringc1400
bolt1575
decamp1751
mog1770
to hop the twig1797
to take (its, etc.) wing1806
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
vamoose1834
fade1848
skedaddle1862
to beat it1906
blow1912
to hop it1914
beetle1919
bug1950
jet1951
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > begin to blow
risec1330
warpa1400
upwaffc1400
spring1611
arise1847
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 557 Wild wedirs vp werpe & þe wynd ryse.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 2746 I rede ȝe..warpes wylily awaye.
b. Scottish. Of bees: To swarm. Cf. cast v. 22.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Hymenoptera > [verb (intransitive)] > swarm (of bees)
swarmc1386
cast?1523
knit1577
warpa1824
a1824 in J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 94 The hive which warped owre the fell.
†8. transitive. With inversion of const.: To strike, hit, assail with (a missile). Also, to besprinkle (with a liquid). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > assail with missiles [verb (transitive)] > of missile: hit > hit with missile
warpc888
shootc893
shoot1297
strike1377
nail1787
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xvi. §2 Þa forceaw he his tungan & wearp hine mid ðære tungan on þæt neb foran.
OE Beowulf 2791 He hine eft ongon wæteres weorpan.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1121 Ȝif þu art iworpe oþer ischote.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14753 Heo..wurpen hine mid banen.
†9. transferred and figurative. In various uses: To thrust (one's hand) forth; to lay (hands) on; to cast (one's head) down; to strike (a stroke). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (transitive)]
repeOE
warpa1225
treatc1384
feela1400
palp1534
palpabrize1593
fista1616
handa1616
thrumble1632
to set (one's) hand to1638
to feel of ——1678
digitize1689
the world > movement > absence of movement > hold or holding > hold [verb (transitive)] > lay hold of or grasp
i-fangc888
gripc950
repeOE
befongOE
keepc1000
latchc1000
hentOE
begripec1175
becatchc1200
fang?c1200
i-gripea1225
warpa1225
fastenc1225
arepa1250
to set (one's) hand(s onc1290
kip1297
cleach?a1300
hendc1300
fasta1325
reachc1330
seizec1374
beclipc1380
takea1387
span1398
to seize on or upon1399
getc1440
handc1460
to catch hold1520
to take hold1530
to lay hold (up)on, of1535
grasple1553
to have by the backa1555
handfast1562
apprehend1572
grapple1582
to clap hold of1583
comprehend1584
graspa1586
attach1590
gripple1591
engrasp1593
clum1594
to seize of1600
begriple1607
fast hold1611
impalm1611
fista1616
to set (one's) hand to1638
to get one's hands on1649
the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > stretch [verb (transitive)] > specific part of body
reacheOE
stretcha1000
to-spreada1000
warpa1225
spreada1275
putc1390
straightc1400
to lay forthc1420
outstretcha1425
tillc1540
extend1611
to rax out1622
to stick out1663
overreach1890
the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > deal or give (a stroke or blow)
setc1300
smitec1300
layc1330
drivec1380
slentc1380
hit?a1400
to lay ona1400
reacha1400
fetchc1400
depart1477
warpc1480
throw1488
lenda1500
serve1561
wherret1599
senda1627
lunge1735
to lay in1809
wreak1817
to get in1834
a1225 St. Marher. 3 As theos cnihtes walden warpen honden on hire ha bigon to cleopien ant callen þus to criste.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 76 Ȝef ani wurðeð swa wod þet he warpe hond towart þe þurch þe clað.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 70 [He] Warpeð dun þet heaued.
c1480 (a1400) St. Margaret 267 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 54 Þat þai suld tak þat maydin schen,..& strakis fel til hyre let warpe.
10.
†a. To cast, shed (horns). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [verb (transitive)] > shed horns
warpc1220
c1220 Bestiary 325 in Old Eng. Misc. 11 He werpeð er hise hornes in wude er in ðornes.
†b. To lose (the natural hue). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > lose colour [verb (transitive)]
warpc1200
fade1559
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 183 Among þat þe sowle witeð, þe licame worpeð hewe.
†11.
a. To utter, pronounce (a word, speech); to utter (a cry), heave (a sigh). Also with out. Also absol., to talk, speak (of). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > speak, say, or utter [verb (transitive)]
speakc825
queatheOE
forthdoc900
i-seggenc900
sayeOE
speak971
meleOE
quidOE
spella1000
forthbringc1000
givec1175
warpa1225
mootc1225
i-schirea1250
upbringa1250
outsay?c1250
spilec1275
talec1275
wisea1300
crackc1315
nevena1325
cast1330
rehearsec1330
roundc1330
spend1362
carpa1375
sermona1382
to speak outc1384
usea1387
minc1390
pronouncea1393
lancec1400
mellc1400
nurnc1400
slingc1400
tellc1400
wordc1400
yelpc1400
worka1425
utterc1444
outspeakc1449
yielda1450
arecchec1460
roose?a1475
cutc1525
to come forth with1532
bubble1536
prolate1542
report1548
prolocute1570
bespeak1579
wield1581
upbraid1587
up with (also mid) ——1594
name1595
upbrayc1600
discoursea1616
tonguea1616
to bring out1665
voice1665
emit1753
lip1789
to out with1802
pitch1811
go1836
to open one's head1843
vocabulize1861
shoot1915
verbal1920
be1982
a1225 Leg. Kath. 1325 Þet we ne cunnen..warpen na word aȝein.
a1225 Juliana 21 He..weorp a sic as a wiht þat sare were iwundet.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 227 Wið þis schule þe forlorene warpen aswich ȝeur. þet heouene & eorðe Maȝe ba grimliche agrisen.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2253 I schal stonde stylle & warp þe no wernyng to worch as þe lykeȝ.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 879 A note ful nwe I herde hem warpe.
c1420 Wyntoun Cron. lxxxiv. 1707 (Wemyss) Quhen þis wif had warpit þus Off this abbot Eugenyus.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ii. xi. 23 Scarslie the auld thir wordis hed warpit out.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. viii. 116 And he abufe hym werpis sic sawis.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 2683 Ho..Warpet out wordes wonder to here.
†b. To cast (one's eyes) on or upon (an object).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > direct (a look)
warpc1175
send1592
dart1593
look1599
squint1631
fling1654
the world > space > relative position > posture > position of specific body parts > position specific body part [verb (transitive)] > head, face, or eyes
warpc1175
lout1297
to smite downa1350
to cast downc1374
embowc1440
droop1582
vail1586
upturn1667
slink1683
poke1852
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 12758 Crist warrp eȝhe upp onn symon.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 43 Hwase hefde iseid to eue þo heo worp earest hire echnen þer upon Aeue wend þe awei. þu warpest echȝe on þi deað.
12. dialect.
a. To lay (eggs). Also absol. [So Old Norse verpa.]
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > give birth to > lay (eggs)
layc1000
warpa1340
cast1587
spawna1616
spawna1617
deposit1692
oviposit1847
spit1847
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xc. 13 Þe snake werpis and þe tade nuryssis þe eg, and þarof is broght forth þe basilyske.
1483 Cath. Angl. 409/1 To Warpe as byrdis dose, jncubare, ponere oua.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Ciiv/2 To Warp an egge, ouum ponere.
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Warp, to lay eggs. A hen warps or warys. N.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words (at cited word) A hen is said to warp when she lays.
b. To bring forth (young) naturally. rare. (In quot. 1738 absol.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > give birth to
bearOE
whelpc1175
kindle?c1225
hatcha1350
yeana1387
calvea1425
producea1513
dam1577
cast1587
rewhelp1605
render1607
store1611
drop1662
warp1738
kit1758
kitten1824
throw1824
cub1864
1738 G. Smith Curious Relations II. 453 They [beavers] don't warp in their Houses, but in Hollows dug under Ground.
c. Of a ewe, cow, etc.: To bring forth (young), prematurely; to cast, slip, drop. Also absol.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > give birth to > bear prematurely
slink1640
slip1665
warpa1722
pick1777
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 283 A cow, that..warps her calf three months before her time.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 310 If the ewes warped, they turned them out to the rams again.
1813 T. Rudge Gen. View Agric. Glouc. 297 Cows are liable to slip or warp their calves.
1903 Athenæum 7 Mar. 307/3 Never had so many ewes been known to warp.
II. To bend, twist aside.
13. To bend, curve, or twist (an object) out of shape; spec. to curve (timber) by the application of steam; also, to distort, contort (the body or a limb, the features).
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > misshapenness > put out of shape [verb (transitive)] > distort > twist and bend
writheOE
awarpc1300
warpa1400
skeller1691
coffer1784
a1400–50 Wars Alex. 798 Al to-wraiste þai þar wode & werpis in-sondire.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 517/1 Warpyn', or make wronge, curvo.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares P 1 b Age will..warpe our backs.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. M5 Laden spits, warp't with large Ribbs of Beefe.
1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 419 As in some places, the violence of Heat; so in other, the extremity of Cold, hath often warped Nature, and made it become deformed.
a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) II. iii. x. 219 If perchance the rod of justice be warped a little.
1799 Naval Chron. 1 288 The method was introduced of warping planks to the timbers by the means of steam.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xxvii. 244 Baring his left arm, he showed it warped and contracted by a former attack of rheumatism.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. v. 125 A singularly marked expression of disgust, horror, hatred warped his countenance almost to distortion.
1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies xxi Trying to bend it straight, as he would a tree which wrong culture had warped aside.
1876 R. Broughton Joan I. i. i. 8 A book with its back still warm and warped from having been held over the fire.
1896 A. Conan Doyle Rodney Stone xxi Age had warped and cracked the boards.
figurative.1662 W. Petty Treat. Taxes 9 I descend no lower, wishing onely that there might be an universal Reformation of what length of time hath warped awry.
14.
a. intransitive. To become bent, twisted, or uneven, by shrinkage or contraction. Said esp. of timber. (Cf. cast v. 53.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > misshapenness > lose shape or become misshapen [verb (intransitive)] > become distorted > become twisted and bent
warpc1440
wind1711
society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > actions of wood [verb (intransitive)] > warp
warpc1440
twine1601
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 517/1 Warpyn', or wex wronge or avelonge, as vesselle, oblongo.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 772/1 I warpe, as bordes do, whan they croke for want of good seasonnyng.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 106 The Elme..is meete for the cheekes and postes of Gates,..for it wyll not bowe, nor warpe.
1657 J. Trapp Comm. Esther ii. 2 Green wood is ever shrinking and warping.
1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) III. 159 If the pieces..are thicker..on one side than another,..they will warp to that side.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 37 Cast iron, when annealed, is less liable to warp by a subsequent partial exposure to moderate degrees of heat.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. ii. 34 Old wood seldom warps in the wetting.
1881 F. Young Every Man his own Mechanic §46. 23 Black Ebony..will not warp readily.
b. figurative, or in figurative context. (Cf. 19.)
ΚΠ
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. vi. sig. K3v You are well seasond props, And will not warpe, or leane to either part.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) iii. iii. 80 This fellow wil but ioyne you together, as they ioyne Wainscot, then one of you wil proue a shrunke pannell, and like greene timber, warpe, warpe. View more context for this quotation
1682 J. Flavell Pract. Treat. Fear (new ed.) iv. 44 It would make them warp and bend under such temptations.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 24 It being all one to have no Rule, and one that will warp any way.
1736 T. Lediard Life Marlborough I. 58 To set that Law streight again, which he had made to warp to his Prince's Humour.
1874 C. E. Norton Lett. (1913) II. 33 I, too, warp and crack in this dry, clear atmosphere.
15.
a. transitive. To contract, cause to shrink or shrivel, corrugate. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > reduce in size or extent [verb (transitive)] > contract or shrink > into wrinkles
shrenchc950
clinker1495
wizen1513
rivel1543
clinga1547
shrivel1609
warpa1616
pucker1616
plight1638
weazen1821
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 188 Freize, freize, thou bitter skie..Though thou the waters warpe, thy sting is not so sharpe, as freind remembred not. View more context for this quotation
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. ii. 55 Then from the East they come, to dry and warp Your lungs.
b. intransitive. To shrink or shrivel, become contracted or wrinkled. Also figurative. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > become reduced in size or extent [verb (intransitive)] > contract or shrink > into wrinkles
wizenc890
clinga1000
shrinkc1000
rivelOE
snurpc1300
wrinkle1528
warp1579
shrivel1588
pucker1598
shirpc1639
tuck1797
weazen1821
cringle1823
swivel1898
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 44 You must keepe your sweete faces from scorching in the Sun, chapping in the winde, and warping with the weather.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 366 Me thinkes My fauor here begins to warpe . View more context for this quotation
1696 J. Tutchin Pindarick Ode ii. 10 The Fames of Shakespear and of Ben Must warp, before my nobler fire To their regardless Tombs retire.
16.
a. transitive (figurative) To pervert, distort (the mind, judgement, principles, etc.); to give a ‘twist’ or bias to; to turn (aside) from rectitude or the straight path.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > misjudge [verb (transitive)] > pervert or distort (judgement)
fascinate1596
warp1601
jaundice1791
wry1860
1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iv. i. sig. Gv Me thinkes thy seruant Hedon is nothing so obsequious to thee, as he was wont to be; I know not how, Hee's growne out of his Garbe a-late, hee's warp't . View more context for this quotation
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 138 Nor Folly warp'd my Mind, Nor the frail Texture of the Female Kind Betray'd my Vertue.
1710 J. Addison Whig Examiner No. 4. ⁋4 I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.
1723 Duke of Buckingham Let. to Pope in Wks. II. 289 Suffering their judgments to be a little warped (if I may use that expression) by the heat of their eager inclinations.
1725 I. Watts Logick ii. iv Watch against every Temptation that might bribe your Judgment, or warp it aside from Truth.
1852 F. E. Smedley Lewis Arundel xxvii. 205 These two men, each warped and hardened differently..by the world's evil influence.
1879 M. Arnold Fr. Crit. Milton in Mixed Ess. 252 Johnson's mind..was at many points bounded, at many points warped.
1884 A. R. Pennington Wiclif Pref. p. ix He often allows his prejudice against Wiclif to warp his judgment.
1919 C. Goring Eng. Convict i. 11 The science of criminology..has been..warped by its subjection to all sorts of superstitious and conventional dogmas.
b. Const. from, out of; to, into.
ΚΠ
1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 17 He that is warp'd in his Divinity, will never be at rest till he hath wrap'd [? read warp'd] his Policy to it.
1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis x. 16 Not Faction,..Not Foreign or Domestick Treachery, Could Warp thy Soul to their Unjust Decree.
a1711 T. Ken Christophil in Wks. (1721) I. 496 My treach'rous Heart I fear, Warp'd to the World.
1761 Brit. Mag. Aug. 434/2 By the present mode of education we are forcibly warped from the bias of nature.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 343 There is such perpetual danger from all quarters of having the moral sense warped to a false direction.
1796 Bp. R. Watson Apol. for Bible 379 Some men have been warped to infidelity by viciousness of life.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Locksley Hall in Poems (new ed.) II. 98 Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth!
1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxv. 345 Jarndyce and Jarndyce has warped him out of himself, and perverted me in his eyes.
1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art ii. 135 The bribe of wealth and honour warps him from his honest labour into efforts to attract attention.
1882 ‘Ouida’ In Maremma I. viii. 200 This narrowness of the peasant mind which..demagogues..warp to their own selfish purpose and profits.
17.
a. To distort, wrest, misinterpret, give a false colouring to (a fact, account, etc.). Const. from, to, into.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > pervert or distort [verb (transitive)]
crooka1340
deprave1382
pervertc1390
strainc1449
drawc1450
miswrest?a1475
bewrya1522
wry?1521
to make a Welshman's hose ofa1529
writhea1533
wrest1533
invert1534
wring?1541
depravate1548
rack1548
violent1549
wrench1549
train1551
wreathe1556
throw1558
detorta1575
shuffle1589
wriggle1593
distortc1595
to put, set, place, etc. on the rack1599
twine1600
wire-draw1610
monstrify1617
screw1628
corrupt1630
gloss1638
torture1648
force1662
vex1678
refract1700
warp1717
to put a force upon1729
twist1821
ply1988
1717 R. Bentley Serm. before King George 19 Those, that interpret all actions of their Governers; that warp the most innocent Occurrences to Censure and Calumny.
1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. viii. 123 In Matters of Dispute take heed of warping the Sense of the Writer to your own Opinion.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 437 The worst is—Scripture warp'd from its intent.
1784 G. Stuart tr. J. L. De Lolme Constit. Eng. (new ed.) i. x. 133 Writs, being warped from their actual meaning.
1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 303 While..you, Mr Poundtext, were warping the Scriptures into Erastianism.
1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. x. 218 Probably..both [accounts] are warped by the opposite feelings of the writers.
1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 9 We have warped the word ‘economy’ in our English language into a meaning which it has no business whatever to bear.
a1872 F. D. Maurice Friendship Bks. (1874) xiii. 381 A..spirit which would not suffer us to pervert or warp any documents to suit a purpose of ours.
b. intransitive. Of a statement: To become distorted.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > become distorted [verb (intransitive)]
warp1914
1914 Blackwood's Mag. July 48/2 Whether all this be true I cannot tell, but as I guess it is an old report that has warped in wandering.
18.
a. transitive. To turn aside or divert (a moving body) from its path or orbit. Also, to deflect, change the direction of (one's journey). rare.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement of [verb (transitive)] > cause to deviate from course
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1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 103 Then [I] warp my voyage on the southern gales.
1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision III. i. 130 As from a cloud the fire is seen to fall, From its original impulse warp'd, to earth.
1837 R. W. Emerson Oration before Phi Beta Kappa Soc. 9 I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit.
b. intransitive. To turn or incline in a (specified) direction. rare.
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the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > incline in a direction
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bend1583
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1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 67 There being no more reason why it [an arrow] should warp to the right hand than to the left, why this way rather than that, it must needs stir no way.
1684–94 tr. Plutarch Morals (1718) III. 16 But as she [the Moon] warps back again to meet her Illustrious Mate, the nearer she makes her approach, the more she is eclipsed until no longer seen.
c. Science Fiction. To travel through space by way of a space warp.
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society > travel > air or space travel > space flight > [verb (intransitive)] > travel by a space-warp
warp1946
1946 F. Brown in Astounding Sci.-Fiction May 129/1 The Ark..would warp through space to a point a safe distance outside the Argyle I-II system and come in on rocket power.
1957 ‘T. Sturgeon’ Thunder & Roses 117 Earth was ready for him when he warped in.
†19.
a. figurative. (Cf. 14b, 16) To receive a ‘twist’ or bias, which influences one's judgement or sentiments; to turn from the straight path; to deviate, swerve, go astray. Const. from. Obsolete.
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society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > misconduct (one's life) [verb (transitive)] > fall or stray from
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > be mistaken, err [verb (intransitive)]
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to fare astray (misliche, amiss)a1849
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > judge prematurely [verb (intransitive)] > feel prejudice
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to have a thing about1936
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. i. 14 There is our Commission, From which, we would not haue you warpe . View more context for this quotation
1642 D. Rogers Naaman 550 If we feele..that our hearts warpe from Gods commands.
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 34 He fals off again warping and warping till he come to contradict himselfe in diameter.
1681 R. Baxter Apol. Nonconformists Ministry Pref. p. ii Learned men, when they warp and err.
1738 D. Neal Hist. Puritans IV. 211 Any single officer that should hereafter warp from his obedience.
1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. §5. 384 A pleasurable or painful State of the Stomach or Brain, Joy or Grief, will make all the Thoughts warp their own way, little or much.
1797 E. Burke Three Mem. French Affairs 50 Amongst them there are no leaders possessed of an influence for any other purpose but that of maintaining the present state of things. The moment they are seen to warp, they are reduced to nothing.
a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1822) IV. 325 He [sc. Edwards] never warped from the path of common sense.
†b. To be biassed, incline, lean, be drawn or attracted (to, towards). Also, to bend, submit, yield (to); to submit to do something. Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > tend or incline [verb (intransitive)]
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a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) sig. D I can no more, my patience will not warpe. To see these flatteries how they scorne and carpe.
1624 J. Gee Foot out of Snare xi. 71 A Gentlewoman..that was well inclining and warping toward the Popish pale.
1643 E. Bowles Plaine Eng. 17 How miserably will you find the..Clergie wraping [read warping] to the prevailing party.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 222 Others more truly tax him, for warping to the Will of King Henry the eighth, not so much to decline his own death, as to preserve his Covent from destruction.
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 34 Men generally do sute their opinions to their inclinations; warping to that side where their interest doth lie.
1772 J. W. Fletcher Logica Genevensis iii. 34 Our Church, far from warping to Crispianity, strongly inforces St. James's undefiled religion.
III. To weave, twine.
20. transitive.
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†a. To weave (a web). Obsolete.
b. To arrange (threads, yarn) so as to form a warp; to wind on a warp-beam. Also absol.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > weave > weave fabric
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [verb (transitive)] > weave > set warp
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c1220 Bestiary 467 in Old Eng. Misc. 15 Ðe spinnere..werpeð ðus hire web, and weueð on hire wise.
c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 336 Homme poet teil perer. M[an] may a webbe warpe.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. cxxiii. 121 It is furred with fox skynnes in lengthe and in brede, al be it with oute wouen maad, and worpen of the wulle of white sheep.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 517/1 Warpon', as webstarys, stamino, licio.
1483 Cath. Angl. 409/1 To Warpe A web, protelare.
?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. iii. sig. C.iiij To spynne, to warpe, orels wynde spyndels in a case for to throw wofe of.
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos iv. sig. K.j Her self the web had wrought, & warpyd fine with wreath of gold.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Ordire, to warpe or lay as weauers do their webbs before it be wouen.
1662 Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) 240 The saids proveist, baillies and councill..discharges them..from litting any plaid yairn, and from worping and working any that shall not be of the lenth and breidth abone writtin.
1788 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum II. 106 My mither sent me to the town To warp a plaiden wab.
1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. i. 42 The yarn is dressed, beamed, and warped by steam-power.
1879 T. R. Ashenhurst Pract. Treat. Weaving & Designing Textile Fabrics 50 The yarn..may be warped direct from the cop or bobbin upon which it has been spun.
†c. figurative. To weave, contrive, devise. Also with up, and absol.
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 365 He answerde.. þat he wolde warpe suche a webbe to the emperise [L. talem se telam Augustae orditurum], þat sche schulde nevere have it of to here lyves ende.
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. viii. 179 And alwey he werpeth temptaciouns and breideth þem, and weueth hem.
1549–62 T. Sternhold & J. Hopkins Whole Bk. Psalms lii. 2 Why doth thy minde yet still deuise, such wicked wiles to warpe?
1577 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Chron. 393 I haue warpt such a webb, as thou neither knowest to vnframe, or mayst cut off when it is finished.
1604 E. Hake in E. Farr Sel. Poetry Reign James I (1847) 256 All these are but the loome That warpeth up my death.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 835/1 Like a wise man, that meant to warpe no more then he could well weaue.
1616 S. S. Honest Lawyer iii. sig. E4 We'll trie what mischeefes he can warpe.
1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 25 Before the contexture of another Universal Language [than mine] can be warped.
1786 R. Burns Poems 204 Ne'er mind how Fortune waft an' warp.
21.
a. Rope-making. To stretch (yarn) into lengths to be tarred.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > rope-making > make rope [verb (transitive)] > other specific processes
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1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) To warp yarn, in rope-making, is to stretch the yarns, previous to their being tarred, all to one given length.
1846 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 6th Ser. 197 The reels of yarn are first ‘warped’ into a ‘haul’, that is, the yarns are unwound from the reel, stretched out straight and parallel, and assembled together.
b. To weave, twine (a willow-basket). dialect.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > basket-making > make baskets [verb (transitive)] > specific processes
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1806 J. Grahame Birds Scotl. i. 67 He..warps the skep with willow rind.
c. To lace together (the ends of a seine). dialect.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > net > fishing nets [verb (transitive)] > lace together
warp1835
1835 J. Couch in 3rd Rep. Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Soc. 74 While the larger boats are engaged in warping the ends together.
†22. To twist, entwine, insert (something into something else). Also figurative; also, to unite or combine with. Obsolete.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > with twisting
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to worm in1605
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > mix or blend [verb (transitive)] > intricately
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1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 256 The public papers and fragments of oratory warped into its text, are selected with taste.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xvi. 241 A scathed tree, which had warped its twisted roots into the fissures of the rock. View more context for this quotation
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. x. 237 I care not for all those strings of pearl, which you fret me by warping into my tresses.
1822 A. Ranken Hist. France IX. 13 With this proposal..was warped..the condition, that the regent, who entertained strong prejudices against the Jesuits, should become their friend and protector.
23. Angling. To fasten (the materials of an artificial fly) to the hook. With adverb, as on, in, down, up.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > attracting fish [verb (transitive)] > fly
warp1676
1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler v. 40 Warp them so down, as to stand, and slope towards the bend of the hook, and having warpt up to the end of the shanck [etc.].
1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler viii. 73 When you warp on your dubbing.
1676 C. Cotton Compl. Angler viii. 78 Some red warpt in for the Tagg of his tail.
1836 A. Ronalds Fly-fisher's Entomol. 29 Warp the remnant round the shank.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling xiii. 387 The silk must be warped up from the tail to the required spot.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling xlii. 368 When the body is being warped on.
†24. To surround, involve, infold in, with. Obsolete.But perhaps a metathetic form of wrap v.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > wrap [verb (transitive)] > enfold or envelop
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14.. Medical MS. in Anglia XIX. 79 Ȝif on hyde hymself in a busch þer-of, or ellys he be warpyd weel in his lewys & his braunchys, no thonder nor leuene schall hym towchyn.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. iii. 33 Lyke as ane wall with sand warpit about.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. xiii. 24 His awin heid warpit with a snod olive.
IV. To tow; to move gradually forward.
25.
a. Nautical. To move (a ship) along by hauling on a rope or ‘warp’. Also with adverb, as out, off, in, round.
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society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > propel boat other than by sail or oars [verb (transitive)] > by hauling on ropes
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1513 [implied in: T. Howard in A. Spont Lett. & Papers War France (1897) X. 163 I trust agaynst nyght this W.N.W. wynd will ly, and then we woll forth with warpyng. (at warping n.1 4)].
1587 T. Saunders True Discr. Voiage Tripolie sig. Bjv Then went we to warpe out the Ship.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxii. xx. 444 Those [ships] they drew up, and warped into the deepe, with ropes fastened to their poupes.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iv. 128 Seeing them warp themselues to windward, we thought it not good to be boorded on both sides at an anchor.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World v. 189 The water being smooth I soon warp'd her off again.
1791 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse §250 We let go an anchor and warped the buss to her proper birth.
1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt xvii. 236 When the current was too strong, the sailors leapt out and warped the boat along.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 292 About the capstan did the shipmen run, Warping the great ship to the harbour mouth.
1882 J. A. Lees & W. J. Clutterbuck Three in Norway 3 We were warped out of dock about eight o'clock.
b. absol. Also intransitive of a ship: To move by warping.
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society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > propel boat other than by sail or oars [verb (intransitive)] > by hauling on ropes > proceed by warping
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > make progress > by hauling on ropes
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a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Diiiv Out of the rode soone shall the vessell warpe.
1580 H. Smith in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) ii. 470 At 3. in the afternoone we did warpe from one piece of ice to another.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 158 The Fleete with much difficulty warped in, and recovered the Harbour.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xiii. 272 As there was but little wind,..they were obliged to warp out of the harbour.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xxi. 141 They warp 30 English miles in a day against the stream.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. vii. 210 Its width is so contracted at one point, indeed, that they [sc. steamboats] are obliged to warp round by means of a rope.
1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 139/1 Two large transporting buoys..for vessels to moor to or warp from.
1858 Times 30 Nov. 4/3 The current gets..too strong for sailing ships, which could only warp up.
1913 World 25 Feb. 279/1 As she warped slowly from the quay.
c. to warp one's way.
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society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > propel boat other than by sail or oars [verb (intransitive)] > by hauling on ropes > proceed by warping
warpa1547
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to warp one's way1836
1836 Uncle Philip's Conversat. Whale Fishery 192 Warping their way with great danger from lane to lane of open water.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) x. 73 We commenced..to warp our way through the impacted ice.
26. To progress slowly or with effort by using the hands as well as the feet. Also reflexive, to haul oneself along.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > move along with hands and feet or with body prone [verb (intransitive)] > scramble > with effort
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving along with hands and feet or with body prone > move along with hands and feet or with body prone [verb (reflexive)] > haul oneself along
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1796 Hist. Ned Evans IV. 32 Having fastened another rope round his body for security,..he warped along the first over the chasm.
1850 C. Kingsley N. Devon: Pt. III in Misc. (1860) II. 292 I recollect our literally warping ourselves down to the beach, holding on by rocks and posts.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. vii. 97 He slowly warped himself through the gay crowd.
1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1857) v. 88 My rough garments..frayed, at times,..by warping to the tops of great trees, and by feats as a cragsman.
1859 H. Kingsley Recoll. G. Hamlyn xlviii The first mate, coming forward, warping himself from one belaying-pin to another.
27. intransitive. To float or whirl through the air. Chiefly poetic.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move in the air [verb (intransitive)] > swiftly
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1565 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1883) I. 108 The snow driving and warping to and fro.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 341 A pitchy cloud Of Locusts, warping on the Eastern Wind. View more context for this quotation
a1748 J. Thomson Spring in Wks. (1766) I. 7 For oft, engender'd by the hazy north, Myriads on myriads, insect armies warp [1728 waft] Keen in the poison'd breeze.
1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 23 102 What clouds of ephemeral children are for ever warping away on the wind of death!
1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 346 A hundred realms Watch its broad shadow warping on the wind.
V. Senses relating to silt or alluvial deposit.
†28. transitive. To run (a ship) aground, fix on a shoal or sandbank. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > grounding of vessel > be aground (by so much) [verb (transitive)] > cause to run aground > accidentally
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1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 634 As that the flude come rynnand by the land, Amang tha schippis warpit in the sand.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Cambr. 159 Crossing Humber in a Barrow-boat, the same was sand-warpt, and he drowned therein.
29.
a. To choke up (a channel) with alluvial deposit. Also intransitive, to become choked up.
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1745 Beverley Beck Act ii. 2 The said beck being now in very great danger of being choaked and warped up.
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 284 In case the drains should warp up at any time, provision of sluices is made to let water out of the canal into either, to scour them out clean.
1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 287 The rivers warp up in dry seasons to a great height, with a muddy sand or silt, which the tides deposite.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Sand-warped, silted up, or choked with sand.
1878 S. H. Miller & S. B. J. Skertchly Fenland vii. 193 A new sluice was erected for the purpose of warping up the old channel.
b. To heap up (sand) by gradual deposit from a current. ? Obsolete. Also, to cause (sand) to be heaped up.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > movement of material > [verb (transitive)] > heap up by gradual deposit
warp1674
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > gather in one mass or form lumps > accumulate > heap or pile up > cause to form a heap
warp1841
1674 A. Marvell Let. 22 Oct. in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 283 Our House..desiring you to sound once again whether the sand do continue as when the Captains last surveyed it, or it be warped up higher.
1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 395/1 He has lately been occupied in forming a defence, by warping silt, with whin or gorse kids, laid horizontally.
30. To cover (land), by natural or artificial flooding, with a deposit of alluvial soil. Cf. warp n.1 6.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > sedimentation > [verb (transitive)] > alluviate
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1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 278 They are attempting to warp 400 acres in one piece.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 436 The main canal may be cut..so as to warp the lands on each side of it.
1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 37 Drains to flood and warp the land.
1867 Good Words 8 306/1 The mud caught by it soon ‘warps’ the space within into firm and rich dry land.
absolute.1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 284 If a landlord warp, it should be deep at once; if a tenant, shallow, and repeat it.1828 Rep. Trial W. & J. Dyon at Castle of York 22 He was warping with his son from four..o'clock.
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