▪ I. ˈwarrok, n.
Also 9 warrick.
[f. warrok v.]
† 1. A girth. Obs.
| 1392–3 Earl Derby's Exped. (Camden) 238 Pro horscombes, warrokes, et sagmine emptis ibidem pro equis domini, xxij s. 14.. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 612/23 Sirentorium, a warrok. |
2. dial. A peculiar tackle used in shipyards, etc. on Tyneside. (Eng. Dial. Dict. 1905.)
▪ II. ˈwarrok, v.
Also 4 warroke, 9 warrick.
[a. OF. waroquier, garochier; perh. of Teut. origin.]
† 1. trans. To girth (a horse); to bind (a person). Obs.
| 1362 Langl. P.Pl. A. iv. 19 Sette my Sadel vppon Soffre⁓til-I-seo-my-tyme, And loke þou warroke [v.r. warrok] him wel wiþ swiþe feole gurþhes. c 1440 York Myst. xxx. 525 Sir knyghtis..That warlowe ye warrok and wraste, And loke þat he brymly be braste. |
2. dial. (See quot.)
| 1894 Northumbld. Gloss., Warrick, to cramp or fasten with ropes or chains... Ropes are warricked by passing one end of a lever through a loop and heaving it tight. The end of the lever is then tied down. |
3. Comb.: warrick-screw, -soam (see quots.).
| 1894 Northumbld. Gloss., Warrick-screw, the screw used for warricking or tightening the chains passed round a waggon-load of round timber. 1905 Eng. Dial. Dict., Warrick-sowm, a chain for girding timber on a wood-wagon. |