to lay eggs ; a hen warps or warys. N.
·vt To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam. II. Warp ·v Four; ·esp., four herrings; a cast. ·see <<Cast>...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
A rope or light hawser, employed occasionally to transport a ship from one place to another in a por...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·- A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; — so called because it is necessary...
·add. ·- A kind of knitting in which a number of threads are interchained each with one or more cont...
the same ; from the Low Dutch, WORPEN, to cast forth, and MOLDE, earth. N. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
, or guest-rope. A rope carried to a distant object, in order to warp a vessel towards it, or to m...
A swinging spar (lower studding-boom) rigged from the ship's side with a warp for boats to ride by. ...
To carry a hawser out from the ship by a boat, and fasten it to some distant place to remove the shi...
To haul a boat along underneath it, in order to clear it, if any part happens to be foul. To under-r...