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Definition of Norfolk wherry
1. Noun. Sailing barge used especially in East Anglia.
Generic synonyms: Barge, Flatboat, Hoy, Lighter
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Lexicographical Neighbors of Norfolk Wherry
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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