3. To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.
Dryden.
I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.
Addison.
We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.
Southey. 4. To weave; to fabricate. [R. & Poetic.] Nares.
While doth he mischief warp.
Sternhold. 5. (Naut.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed
object.
6. To cast prematurely, as young; — said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]
7. (Agric.) To let the tide or other water in upon for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or
slimy substance. [Prov. Eng.]
8. (Rope Making) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns.
9. (Weaving) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam.
Warped surface (Geom.), a surface generated by a straight line moving so that no two of its consecutive
positions shall be in the same plane. Davies & Peck.
Warp
(Warp) v. i.
1. To turn, twist, or be twisted out of shape; esp., to be twisted or bent out of a flat plane; as, a board
warps in seasoning or shrinking.
One of you will prove a shrunk panel, and, like green timber, warp, warp.
Shak.
They clamp one piece of wood to the end of another, to keep it from casting, or warping.
Moxon. 2. to turn or incline from a straight, true, or proper course; to deviate; to swerve.
There is our commission,
From which we would not have you warp.
Shak. 3. To fly with a bending or waving motion; to turn and wave, like a flock of birds or insects.
A pitchy cloud
Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind.
Milton. 4. To cast the young prematurely; to slink; — said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.]
5. (Weaving) To wind yarn off bobbins for forming the warp of a web; to wind a warp on a warp beam.
Warp
(Warp), n. [AS. wearp; akin to Icel. varp a casting, throwing, Sw. varp the draught of a net,
Dan. varp a towline, OHG. warf warp, G. werft. See Warp, v.]
1. (Weaving) The threads which are extended lengthwise in the loom, and crossed by the woof.
2. (Naut.) A rope used in hauling or moving a vessel, usually with one end attached to an anchor, a
post, or other fixed object; a towing line; a warping hawser.
