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Definition of wherry in English: wherrynounPlural wherries ˈwɛriˈ(h)wɛri 1A light rowing boat used chiefly for carrying passengers. Example sentencesExamples - After that, at five-minute intervals, came waves of increasingly speedy fixed-seat rowing craft - home-built plywood skiffs, rugged surf boats, fragile wherries, multi-oared gigs.
- Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
- Far more satisfying, however, was picking off the slower vessels that had started before us: the lumbering dories, skiffs, and wherries.
- On Sunday 2 June, the wherry Albion will carry the original Millennium flame from where it has been carefully kept alight, in Great Yarmouth's St Nicholas Church.
- 1.1British A large light barge.
Derivatives nounPlural wherrymen In the 16th century, Acts of Parliament regulated the watermen and wherrymen working on the tidal Thames between Gravesend and Windsor. Example sentencesExamples - A gritty community of fishermen and farmers, Hythe has always had its ferrymen, or wherrymen as they were known for centuries.
- Traditional wherries were converted to carry people by enterprising wherrymen and by the turn of the century special pleasure wherries were built as floating holiday homes.
- Bexfield is said to have been one of the wherrymen who plied the Yare between Norwich and Yarmouth.
- Hard times sometimes called for desperate measures, and wherrymen were not averse to a bit of smuggling.
Origin Late Middle English: of unknown origin. Rhymes beriberi, berry, BlackBerry, bury, Ceri, Derry, ferry, Gerry, jerry, Kerry, merry, perry, Pondicherry, sherry, terry, very, wolfberry Definition of wherry in US English: wherrynounˈ(h)werēˈ(h)wɛri 1A light rowboat used chiefly for carrying passengers. Example sentencesExamples - On Sunday 2 June, the wherry Albion will carry the original Millennium flame from where it has been carefully kept alight, in Great Yarmouth's St Nicholas Church.
- Successive displays chronicle the Greek trireme, perhaps the ultimate statement of rowing power, the Venetian gondola, the Thames wherry, wooden-hulled lifeboats and arctic whaleboats.
- After that, at five-minute intervals, came waves of increasingly speedy fixed-seat rowing craft - home-built plywood skiffs, rugged surf boats, fragile wherries, multi-oared gigs.
- Far more satisfying, however, was picking off the slower vessels that had started before us: the lumbering dories, skiffs, and wherries.
- 1.1British A large light barge.
Origin Late Middle English: of unknown origin. |