Meaning of wolve | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To behave like a wolf.
   intransitive
2. Of an organ, to make a hollow whining sound like that of a wolf.
   intransitive
3. Rare form of wolf (“to devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously”).
   form-of, rare, transitive

Examples

“he had returned to his schoolboy's script, to distant Evensongs, to the wolving of the ancient chapel organ as the last⟳ light⟳ is extinguished and the door latched for the long night.”

“He then went to the Crown and Anchor public-house, in the same street, and had two pints of ale, and bread and cheese, the latter of which he “wolved” in a way that “out dando’d Dando.””

“Already, some of the labourers were unstraddling the benches to go, having wolved a plate or two, and their piece of pie.”

“I’d rather be the wolf than be wolved.”

“Also, when she wolves a sandwich—a peasant greed and sort⟳ of pious righteousness, as if “Food is Good For You. The Body Must Survive⟳. I have⟳ a Right to this sandwich.””

“That chip by this addition became a feast, and the Fernbank manners, as they wolved into it, were revolting.”

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