warping

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]

2.To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise. [1913 Webster]

The planks looked warped.— Coleridge.[1913 Webster]

Walter warped his mouth at this To something so mock solemn, that I laughed.— Tennyson.[1913 Webster]

3.To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert. [1913 Webster]

This first avowed, nor folly warped my mind.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

I have no private considerations to warp me in this controversy.— Addison.[1913 Webster]

We are divested of all those passions which cloud the intellects, and warp the understandings, of men.— Southey.[1913 Webster]

4.To weave; to fabricate. [R. & Poetic.] --Nares. [1913 Webster]

While doth he mischief warp.— Sternhold.[1913 Webster]

5.(Naut.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object. [1913 Webster]

6.To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]

7.(Agric.) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]

8.(Rope Making) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns. [1913 Webster]

9.(Weaving) To arrange (yarns) on a warp beam. [1913 Webster]

10.(Aeronautics) To twist the end surfaces of (an aerocurve in an airfoil) in order to restore or maintain equilibrium. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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. [1913 Webster]

1.The act or process of one who, or that which, warps. [1913 Webster]

2.The art or occupation of preparing warp or webs for the weaver. --Craig. [1913 Webster]

Warping bank, a bank of earth raised round a field to retain water let in for the purpose of enriching land. --Craig.

Warping hook, a hook used by rope makers for hanging the yarn on, when warping it into hauls for tarring.

Warping mill, a machine for warping yarn.

Warping penny, money, varying according to the length of the thread, paid to the weaver by the spinner on laying the warp. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright.

Warping post, a strong post used in warping rope-yarn. [1913 Webster]