Warp

WARP, v.1 and sb. Var. dial. uses in Sc. Irel. and Eng.
[warp, wāp, wǭp.] 1. v. In phr. (1) to go far to warp
and the mill so near, ‘to carry coals to Newcastle’; (2) to
warp and waft, obs., to make intricate turns.
(1) Uls. Uls. Jrn. Arch. (1853-1862) V. 105. (2) Slg. He [a
butcher] took his gully by the haft, An' twirl'd the blade, 'Mang
puddins he could warp and waft, Muir Poems (1818) 17.
2. Obs. To throw; to cast.
I.Ma. They warped all his bowels about on the tide, Hogg
Poems (ed. 1865) 291. ne.Lan.1
3. To lace together the ends of a ‘sean-net.’
Cor. While the larger boats are engaged in warping the ends
together, the lurker takes its station in the opening, Quiller-Couch
Hist. Polperro (1871) 106; Cor.3
4. To cause a deposit on land of alluvial soil by means of
natural or artificial flooding; to silt up; also used with up.
See Sand-warped, s.v. Sand, 1 (33).
n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 n.Yks.4, ne.Yks.1 e.Yks. Large fields are surrounded by
embankments, dykes are cut, and sluice gates placed; when
warping is in progress the gates all along the dykes to the tidal
river, miles away, are opened. The rising tide flows through the
inlets to banked-in fields, are drawn, and the land flooded, Yks.
Wkly. Post (Feb. 23, 1901) 7; e.Yks.1, m.Yks.1 w.Yks. Marshall
Review (1808) I. 388. Lin. For the purpose of warping up the old
channel, Miller & Skertchly Fenland (1878) vii. n.Lin.1
Hence warped up, phr. of a person: silently stupid.
n.Lin.1 A figure of speech taken from a drain or clough-head so
choked with warp as to be useless. ‘He's cleär warped up, niver
duz noht bud smoäk bacca, an' think aboot his bairn.’
5. Obs. To make an embankment; see below.
Gall. An attempt has been... made... to recover land from
the sea by warping; this is done by driving piles of wood into
the beach, interwoven with branches of trees or any sort of
bramble, to retain the mud on the ebbing of the tide, Agric. Surv.
230 (Jam.).
6. To open. N.Cy.1 7. Of a ewe, cow, or mare: to
cast her young. Cf. wop, v.1
Glo. Some cows are perhaps by constitutional weakness, or
bodily imperfection, more liable to warp than others, Marshall
Review (1818) II. 464; Glo.1 Glo.2, Brks.1 e.An.1 The cow slinks her
calf, the mare slips her foal, the ewe warps her lamb (s.v. Slink).
Suf. Rainbird Agric. (1819) 299, ed. 1849. s.Cy. Trans. Phil. Soc.
(1858) 177. I.W.1 That mare warped her voould; I.W.2, Wil.
(G.F.B.)
Hence Warpling, sb. a calf born before its time. Glo.1
8. To lay eggs.
N.Cy.1 N.Cy.2 Cum. Stone the ducks home to warp, w.Cum. Times
(Apr. 28, 1900) 3, col. 8; Cum.1 Cum., Wm. Nicolson (1677) Trans.
R. Soc. Lit. (1868) IX. Lan. How many eggs has she warped?
Brewer (1870). [Levins Manip. (1570).]
9. Obs. Of bees: to take flight.
Gall. The hive which warped owre the fell... Was warmly
followed by himsell, Mactaggart Encycl. (1824) 94, ed. 1876.
10. Obs. To make a bleating sound.
Slk. O'er the rank scented fen the bleetur was warping, Hogg
Poems (ed. 1865) 64.
11. With up: to plough land in ‘warps.’ Ken.1 Ken.,
e.Sus. Holloway. 12. sb. In comb. (1) Warp-cop, a
conical tin used for warps; (2) Warp-end, fig., a ne'er-do-weel;
(3) Warp-head, a silly, muddle-headed person; (4) Warp-way, to the
right; see below.
(1) w.Yks. (S.K.C.) (2) Der. Poor owd Brown, he may be a
warp end, a bit ov a wastrel in his day, Wkly. Telegraph (Dec. 22,
1894) 12, col. 1; (M.A.W.) (3) Yks. Coom oot, thou girt
warp'eäd (F.P.T.). Lan. Aw've made a match for hauve a creawn
wi' th' owd warp-yed ut he corn't poo yon owd tom cat ov eawrs
o'er owd Dicky Barlow's hoss pond, Wood Hum. Sketches 8.
s.Lan.1 (4) w.Yks. Yarns were originally twisted both ways,
to the right for warp and to the left for weft (W.T.).
13. Phr. warp and waft, completely; every bit.
Abd. That's our Robbie's, warp an' waft, Be't gueed or ill,
Beattie Parings (1801) 18, ed. 1873; (G.W.)
14. A strong rope, esp. one attached to a fishing-net.
e.Yks. Kendall God's Hand (1870) 11. Nrf. Cozens-Hardy
Broad Nrf. (1893) 99. Cor. When everything is favourable, a
warp from the end of the stop-sean is handed to the volyer,
Quiller-Couch Hist. Polperro (1871) 106.
15. The sediment deposited by a river; an accumulation
of mud, &c., checking the flow of water; sand deposited
on the coast.
Yks. Morton Cyclo. Agric. (1863). n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2, ne.Yks.1, e.Yks.1,
m.Yks.1 Lin. Young Annals Agric. (1784-1815) XXXII. 383.
n.Lin.1, Nhp.2
Hence (1) Warp-and-grove, sb. marsh land; (2) Warp-land,
sb. land formed by the silt of a river; the deposit of earth
moved from one part of the coast to another by the action
of the sea.
(1) Lin. It consists of three descriptions of land: marsh, called
here warp-and-grove, strong loam,.. and dry loam, Marshall
Review (1811) III. 77. (2) e.Yks.1
16. A piece of land between two furrows, consisting of
several ridges; a corn ridge; a flat, wide bed of ploughed
land.
e.Nrf. Marshall Rur. Econ. (1787). Ken.1 Sus.1 A piece of
land consisting of ten, twelve, or more ridges, on each side of
which a furrow is left to carry off the water; Sus.2
17. Obs. The stream of salt water which runs from the
brine-pots; also in comp. Salt-warp. Wor. (K.) 18. A
tale of four in counting, esp. used of herrings or oysters;
occas. three or even two.
Sc. His honour Monkbarns should never want sax warp of
oysters, Scott Antiquary (1816) xxxi. Lth. (Jam.) Hdg. A
hundred, as sold by the fishers, contains 33 warp, equal to six score
and twelve. The retail hundred contains only 30 warp, Statist.
Acc. XVII. 69 (JAM.). n.Yks.2 A warp of herrings. w.Yks. Three
nails; a nailmaker's phrase, used when counting nails, Leeds
Merc. Wkly. Suppl. (May 31, 1884) 8. I.Ma. When the fishermen
tell out their herrings they add to every 100, three fishes, which
they distinguish by the name of ‘warp,’ and then they throw in a
single herring, which they call ‘tally’ (S.M.). e.An.1 Nrf.
Cozens-Hardy Broad Nrf. (1893) 100. Ken. Lewis I. Tenet
(1736); Ken.1 Ken.2 Sus. In counting fish 128 herrings make a
hundred and 132 mackerel according to Brighton measure, but
the reckoning is by warps of four fish (F.E.S.); Sus.1 Sus.2 Hmp.
Holloway.
19. A lamb cast some time before its maturity. e.An.1,
Suf. (Hall.) 20. A smart stroke or blow. Cld. (Jam.)
21. A stroke of the oar in rowing.
Sh.I. I canna rowe Wi' sikkan warps, Junda Klingrahool (1898)
52; Sh.&Ork.1
22. A variety of potato.
w.Yks. ‘What mack o' putates hev ye?’ ‘Ah've some warps,
an' they're th' best gooin' (B.K.).
[10. Cp. Þe fyrst word þat he warp, Gawayne (c.
1360) 224.]
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WARP, v.2 Som. To wrap up; a dial. form of ‘wrap.’
(W.F.R.), (Hall.)
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WARPER, sb. Sc. Yks. Lan. A person who lays the
warp threads in order for the weaver.
Sc. (Jam. Suppl.) Ayr. He was a warper in Fulton's ware-room
when I knew him first, Hunter Studies (1870) 162.
w.Yks. (F.R.), s.Lan.1
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WARPING, ppl. adj., vbl. sb. and sb. Sc. Irel. Yks.
Lan. Lin. Also written worping Cai.1 [wa·rpin, wā·pin.]

1. ppl. adj. and vbl. sb. In comb. (1) Warping-bobbin, the
   bobbin on which the yarn is wound previous to being made
   into warps; (2) Warping-creel, a stand in which a ‘warper’ sets his
   ‘cops’ and in which his threads are set in the order they
   are to take in the warp; (3) Warping-dinner, obs., a dinner given
   to a handloom weaver; (4) Warping-mill, (5) Warping-pins, (6) Warping-wheel,
   (7) Warping-woof, Warping-wough, or Warping-wow, the machine in which threads
   are arranged into warps.
   (1) w.Yks. (F.R.) (2) w.Yks. (D.L.) (3) Cai.1 The people
   spun their own wool and brought the yarn to the weaver. They
   on such occasions were expected to bring him a present of food,
   usually a piece of salt pork, for his ‘worpin dinner.’ (4) Uls. Uls.
   Jrn. Arch. (1853-1862). w.Yks. (F.R.), s.Lan.1 (5) Sc. (Jam.
   Suppl.) (6) Ayr. I sat beside my warpin-wheel, And ay I ca'd it
   roun', Burns My heart was ance, st. 4. Uls. Uls. Jrn. Arch.
   (1853-1862). (7) w.Yks. (D.L.); w.Yks.3 A frame three yards and
   one foot long.
   
2. sb. Fig. A thread.
   Lan. We're nobbut a ‘bundle of habits,’ Tee'd round wi' a
   warpin' o' time, Bealey Wark while yo con (1867) st. x, in Cy.
   Wds. No. xvii. 262.
   
3. pl. The mud banks of an estuary; land which has
   been raised by the deposits left by floods.
   e.Yks. Yks. Wkly. Post (Feb. 23, 1901) 7. Lin. Chambers's Jrn.
   (1889) 490. [Warpynge, of the see or oþer water, alluvium
   (Prompt.).]
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   WARPLE, v. Sc. Also written warpel. [wa·rpl.]
   
4. To entangle, intertwine; also used fig.
   Sc. That yarn's sae warplit that I canna get it redd (Jam.); An
   old quarrel's like warplit wool that cannot be redd in a minute,
   Keith Bonnie Lady (1897) 71. Cai.1 Abd. She saw things had
   taken sic a cast, An' sae thro' ither warpl'd were, that she Began
   to dread atweesh them what meith be, Ross Helenore (1768) 80
   (Jam.).
   
5. To twist or wind round; also used fig.
   Arg. Though scorlins warpled my thowl pins, Colville Vernac.
   (1899) 6. Lnk. Warl's griefs an' cares are unco rife, An' warple
   roond a body's life, Thomson Musings (1881) 227. Kcb. They
   [tawse] warpled roun' his lanky shanks Like snakes aroon'
   ‘Laocoon,’ Armstrong Ingleside (1890) 141.
   
6. To wriggle; to twist the limbs about; to walk unsteadily.
   Cf. warble, v.2
   n.Sc. (Jam.), Cai.1 Abd. At greedy-glade, or warpling on the
   green, She 'clipst them a', Ross Helenore (1768) 15, ed. 1812.
   Ayr. Service Dr. Duguid (ed. 1887) 253.
   
7. With through: to struggle through.
   Rxb. If ance-en ye could warpel throwe, Riddell Poet. Wks.
   (ed. 1871) I. 198.
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   WARPLE, WARR, see Wapple, sb.2, Ware, sb.2, v.3
   

Source : Technical Textile Terms by TF. Palmer