Verb

(en verb)

(transitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To throw; cast; toss; hurl; fling.

(transitive, obsolete, outside, dialects) To utter; ejaculate; enunciate; give utterance to.

(dialectal) To bring forth (young) prematurely, said of cattle, sheep, horses, etc.

(dialectal) To cause a person to suddenly come into a particular state; throw.

(transitive, dialectal, of the wind or sea) To toss or throw around; carry along by natural force.

(ambitransitive, dialectal, of a door) To throw open; open wide.

To twist or turn something out of shape.

* Coleridge

The planks looked warped .

* Tennyson

Walter warped his mouth at this / To something so mock solemn, that I laughed.

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To deflect something from a true or proper course.

* Dryden

This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.

* Addison

I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.

* Southey

We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.

To become twisted out of shape.

* (William Shakespeare)

One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp .

* Moxon

They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping .

To go astray or be deflected from a correct course

* (William Shakespeare)

There is our commission, / From which we would not have you warp .

To affect something wrongly, unfairly or unfavourably; to bias

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To arrange strands of thread etc so that they run lengthwise in weaving

(obsolete, rare, poetic) To weave, hence (figuratively) to fabricate; plot.

* Sternhold

while doth he mischief warp

(Nares)

(nautical) To move a vessel by hauling on a line or cable that is fastened to an anchor or pier; especially to move a sailing ship through a restricted place such as a harbour

* 1883: (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)

We had a dreary morning's work before us, for there was no sign of any wind, and the boats had to be got out and manned, and the ship warped three or four miles around the corner of the island.

(nautical) (for a ship) To be moved by warping.

To fly with a bending or waving motion, like a flock of birds or insects.

* (John Milton)

A pitchy cloud / Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind.

(agriculture) To let the tide or other water in upon (low-lying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance.

(ropemaking) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.

To travel across a medium without passing through it normally, as by using a teleporter or time warp.