Vert vs Wert - What's the difference?
vert | wert |
(label) A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
(label) Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
(label) The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
:* 1819': “I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of '''vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.” — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe
(label) In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.
(archaic)
* 1611 , The Bible, King James (Authorised) Version , (first & last usages),
* 1820 , Percy Bysshe Shelley, To A Skylark , (first two lines of ode),
In archaic terms the difference between vert and wert
is that vert is the right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest while wert is form of be|lang=en.As an abbreviation vert
is vertebrate.As a noun vert
is a green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.As an adjective vert
is in blazon, of the colour green.As a verb wert is
form of be|lang=en.vert
English
(wikipedia vert)Etymology 1
, from (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)See also
* vt. in heraldic contexts.Etymology 2
Abbreviation of (vertical).Noun
(en noun)See also
*Anagrams
* * ----wert
English
Verb
- Job 8:6 "If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, ..."
- Revelation 3:15 "I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot."
- "Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, ..."