Wair vs Whir - What's the difference?
wair | whir |
(Scotland, obsolete) To spend.
* 1826 , Mungo Ponton Brown, Supplement to the Dictionary of the Decisions of the Court of Session , Volume 3, Edinburgh,
* 1831 [1566], ,
* 1841 , William Alexander, An Abridgement of the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland , 1424—1707,
(were)
* 1897 , , 2007,
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*1909 , (William Hope Hodgson), (The Ghost Pirates)
*:Suddenly, the time-keeper struck three bells, and the deeper notes of the bell forrard, answered them. I gave a start. It seemed to me that they had been struck close to my elbow. There was something unaccountably strange in the air that night. Then, even as the Second Mate answered the look-out's "All's well," there came the sharp whir and rattle of running gear, on the port side of the mainmast.
As nouns the difference between wair and whir
is that wair is a plank 6 feet long and 1 foot across while whir is .As verbs the difference between wair and whir
is that wair is (scotland|obsolete) to spend or wair can be (were) while whir is .wair
English
Etymology 1
Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)page 569,
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page 94,
- We shall maintain them, nourish them, and defend them, the whole congregation of Christ, and every member thereof, at our whole powers and wairing [spending] of our lives, against Satan, and all wicked power that does intend tyranny or trouble against the foresaid congregation.
page 243,
- Reserving alwayes to the Sheriff or other Magistrates, and taker of the Thief, the expences waired out by them in taking and putting the Thief to execution.
Etymology 3
Verb
(head)page 18,
- We didn't al'ays stay here, but wair' on the wing here and thar where game was most plentiful, and often in company with the Mingoes, who ' wair our sworn fri'nds an' allies.