单词 | warple |
释义 | warplen. dialect. A green lane, a bridle-road. Chiefly in combination warple-road, warple-way; warple-gate n. a gate on a bridle-road ( Eng. Dial. Dict.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > for horses or for riding horse-way985 ridingc1175 ridewaya1500 warple1565 bridleway1667 stirrup-way1736 horse-road1740 bridle road1745 horse-path1755 bridle path1779 ride1789 bridle track1794 horse-track1836 bridle traila1858 spur road1883 horse-ride1903 1565 Extr. Court Rolls Manor of Wimbledon (1866) 128 Ordinacio pro Warpelles. Cum ad ultimam Curiam Generalem hic tentam ordinatum fuit de exponendis, anglice Warples, in Communibus campis de Wimbledon [etc.]. 1658 in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1871) 23 253 One whaple or bridle way sett forth..through the premises leading from Newbridge Mill. 1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 79 A Whapple way, i.e. where a cart and horses cannot pass, but horses only. 1704 R. Stapley Diary in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1849) 2 126 Ye great oake yt stood in ye lane, going ye whapple way to Bolney from Hickstead, was cut down. 1860 J. W. Warter Sea-board & Down II. 34 You ought to have kept to the wopple road. 1868 Gloss. Sussex Words in D. E. Hurst Horsham (1889) Whapple-way. A public bridle path, which went through fields, woods, and farms. 1886 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 31 680 There was an old way or track, formerly known as a warple way, leading from the Uxbridge Road: it was about ten feet wide and was not metalled. 1893 Times 21 Mar. 13/3 A..plot of land..bounded on the north and north-west by a cart road or ‘warple way’. 1893 Times 21 Mar. 13/4 An old ‘warple way’ or easement (i.e., a rough, unmade cart track used..for agricultural purposes, as the removal of crops or conveyance of manure). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). warplev. Scottish. 1. transitive. To entangle, intertwine. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > entangle or make tangled [verb (transitive)] windc1315 harlc1400 snarlc1440 tangle1530 ravela1540 crawl1548 entangle1555 intertangle1589 enroot1600 impester1601 fasel1636 perplex1642 fankle1724 warple1768 hankle1781 intertwist1797 taffle1840 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 80 Nory's heart began to cool right fast, Fan she saw things had taken sick a cast, An' sae thro' ither warpl'd [1789, p. 86 wrapl'd] were, that she Began to dread atweesh them, what meith be. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) That yarn's sae warplit, that I canna get it redd. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) Warple v.,..used in a moral sense, to denote the confusion of any business. 2. intransitive. To move with sinuous movement; also to walk unsteadily. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unsteadily wiggle?c1225 walter1399 falterc1400 stammerc1400 dotterc1475 stavera1500 stumblea1500 reel1529 scamblec1571 halper1596 totter1602 folder1607 wamble1611 to make a Virginia fence1671 wandle1686 fribble1709 rock1718 stoit1719 stoiter1724 swagger1724 doddle1761 stotter1781 toit1786 doiter1793 stot1801 dodder1819 twaddle1823 teeter1844 shoggle1884 welter1884 warple1887 whemmel1895 1768 [see warpling n. at Derivatives]. 1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid iii. iii. 254 Her auld guidman..cam warplin' an' fanklin' owre the muirs by himsel. 3. To twist or wind round. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > coil > [verb (transitive)] > coil round (something) enlacec1374 whipc1500 wreathe1509 enwrap1578 circumvolute1599 twine1602 ingyre1610 wrap?1611 wire1645 serpenta1660 whirl1676 convolute1698 intertwine1717 entwine1796 overtwinea1817 enwind1849 warplea1870 a1870 D. Thomson Musings among Heather (1881) 227 Warl's griefs an' cares are unco rife, An' warple roond a body's life. 1890 A. J. Armstrong Ingleside Musings 141 They [sc. tawse] warpled roun' his lanky shanks Like snakes aroon' ‘Laocoon’. Derivatives ˈwarpled adj. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > entanglement or entangled state > [adjective] snarledc1440 entangled1561 intrinsicate1562 interlaqueate1575 kangled1577 intricate1579 ravelled1594 tangled1600 perplexed1605 intrincea1616 intertangleda1625 intangle1642 snarly1647 intertwisteda1659 tangly1813 reticular1818 uncardeda1833 tanglesome1888 warpled1897 pretzelled1938 1897 ‘L. Keith’ My Bonnie Lady vii. 71 An old quarrel's like warplit wool that cannot be redd in a minute. ˈwarpling n. the action of the verb; †warpling o' the green, a rustic game. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others sitisota1400 papsea1450 half-bowl1477 pluck at the crow1523 white and black1555 running game1581 blow-pointa1586 hot cocklesa1586 one penny1585 cockelty bread1595 pouch1600 venter-point1600 hinch-pinch1603 hardhead1606 poor and rich1621 rowland-hoe1622 hubbub1634 handicap?a1653 owl1653 ostomachy1656 prelledsa1660 quarter-spellsa1660 yert-point1659 bob-her1702 score1710 parson has lost his cloak1712 drop (also throw) (the) handkerchief1754 French Fox1759 goal1765 warpling o' the green1768 start1788 kiss-in-the-ring1801 steal-clothes1809 steal-coat1816 petits paquets1821 bocce1828 graces1831 Jack-in-the-box1836 hot hand1849 sparrow-mumbling1852 Aunt Sally1858 gossip1880 Tambaroora1882 spoof1884 fishpond1892 nim1901 diabolo1906 Kim's game1908 beaver1910 treasure-hunt1913 roll-down1915 rock scissors paper1927 scissors cut paper1927 scissors game1927 the dozens1928 toad in the hole1930 game1932 scissors paper stone1932 Roshambo1936 Marco Polo1938 scavenger hunt1940 skish1940 rock paper scissors1947 to play chicken1949 sounding1962 joning1970 arcade game1978 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess i. 10 Whan she among the neiper bairns was seen, At greedy-glad or warpling o' the green, She 'clipst them 'a. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1565v.1768 |
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