wherry

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  1. noun A light, swift rowboat built for one person and often used in racing.
  2. noun A sailing barge used in East Anglia.

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  • He identified it as a wherry, as he neatly skinned it, then spitted it over the fire. —  The Chronicles Of Pern: First Fall
  • He stepped over the side to hand her into the wherry, and embraced me once again. —  Richard Carvel
  • He sliced upward with his knife, but the wherry was clever and, adding its piercing scream to the fire lizard's, veered away from him. —  Dragon Drums
  • So went and Captain Ferrers with me into our wherry, and my Lord did give five guns, all they had charged, which was the greatest respect my Lord could do me, and of which I was not a little proud. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Jun/Jul/Aug 1661
  • You have chosen a perilous profession, and may at any moment be called away; but, my dear boy, seek always so to live that you may be ready to go when summoned I watched him as he pulled away till his wherry was lost to sight among the shipping, and at first felt very sad; but I soon recovered my spirits, and having got one of the few seamen who had joined to stow my chest away for me on the half-deck, where he told me the apprentices slept, I set out to make an exploring expedition round the ship. —  The Two Whalers Adventures in the Pacific
 

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  1. Middle English whery.

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  1. wherry, n.
  2. Early modern English also whery, whirrie, whyrry; origin unknown. According to Skeat, from Icelandic hverfr, shifty, crank (said of ships) (= Norwegian kverv, crank, unsteady, also swift), from hverfa (preterit hvarf), turn: see wharf.
  3. Cf. wherr.
 

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/ˈhwɛri/
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