Definition of Norfolk wherry

1. Noun. Sailing barge used especially in East Anglia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Norfolk Wherry

Nordicists
Nordics
Nordloh
Nordtvedt effect
Noreen
Noreg
Norette
Norflex
Norfolk
Norfolk Island
Norfolk Islander
Norfolk Islanders
Norfolk jacket
Norfolk plover
Norfolk terrier
Norfolk wherry (current term)
Norfuk
Norge
Norian
Norilsk
Norinyl
Norlestrin
Norlutin
Norm
Norma
Norma Jean Baker
Norman
Norman-French
Norman Conquest
Norman French

Literary usage of Norfolk wherry

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. On the Broads by Anna Bowman Dodd (1896)
"CHAPTER IV A NORFOLK. WHERRY " IT'S a bit ticklish, this wind—a bit ticklish," Davy suddenly broke out. " I don't like the way it's dodgin' about. ..."

2. Old Sea Wings, Ways, and Words, in the Days of Oak and Hemp by Robert Charles Leslie (1890)
"CHAPTER VI. WHERRY-BUILT BOATS. Probably of Norse origin—The Portsmouth and Ryde wherry—The old bumboat, etc.—Norfolk wherry—Yoke steering gear, etc. ..."

3. East Anglian, Or, Notes and Queries on Subjects Connected with the Counties by Samuel Tymms, Charles Harold Evelyn White, Suffolk Institute of Archaeology (1892)
"... Mr. Ruskin is one who— The Author of " Friesland Meres," who successfully chaperoned a family party through the Netherlands in a Norfolk wherry, ..."

4. Sailing Ships and Their Story: The Story of Their Development from the by Edward Keble Chatterton (1915)
"Curiously Dutch-like, too, is the Norfolk wherry seen in Fig. 100, with her one enormous sail, her mast fitted in a tabernacle for ease in lowering, ..."

5. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1897)
"For they are not like anything else in England ; a Norfolk wherry is not a yacht, but something quite sui generis, and a cruise in one gives birth to ..."

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