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Webster 1913 Edition
Wawe
Wawe
(wa̤)
, Noun.
[OE.
wawe
, waghe
; cf. Icel. vāgr
; akin to E. wag
; not the same word as wave
.] A wave.
[Obs.]
Chaucer. Spenser.
Definition 2024
wawe
wawe
English
Noun
wawe (plural wawes)
- (obsolete) A wave.
- Chaucer, The Kinght's Tale, lines 1099-1100:
- And fro the navele doun al covered was / With wawes grene, and brighte as any glas.
- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
- For, while they fly that gulf's devouring jawes,
They on the rock are rent and sunck in helplesse wawes.
- For, while they fly that gulf's devouring jawes,
- Chaucer, The Kinght's Tale, lines 1099-1100:
References
- wawe in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913