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wherries
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n. (plural of wherry English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wherry \Wher"ry\, n.; pl. Wherries . [Cf. Icel. hverfr shifty, crank, hverfa to turn, E. whirl, wharf.] (Naut.) A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing. [Eng.] A long, narrow, light boat, ...
Usage examples of wherries.
The firemen, who were well drilled and had already had to control small fires, arrived with firehoses, which held off the few wherries that evaded the little defenders.
The skyborne green flamed off the insistent wherries, bugling to her fellows to help her.
It took nearly six weeks for the omnivorous wherries, as the EEC team had named the awkward fliers, to discover that new source of food and for hunger to overcome their cautious, though some termed it cowardly, nature.
Although some people bore scratches from the raking talons of the wherries, there would have been more — and probably serious — casualties if the dragonets had not intervened.
The older dragonets do a first-rate job of keeping off snakes and wherries, to give the babies a chance.
I’d never have expected anything as close to our vertebrates as wherries and dragonets on another planet.
The dragons' flight over some of these caused flocks of wherries and other avian forms to debouch in frantic escape.
No whers, watchwhers, or wherries have been affected though individuals of all those species had contact with the feline at Igen Sea Hold or Keroon Beasthold.
Runnerbeasts are affected but Master Talpan says that watchwhers, wherries, and dragons don't contract the disease.
Fortunately blues have good appetites and, although Capiam maintains that dragons, wherries, and watchwhers can't contract the plague, dragons had best eat from stock isolated in their own weyrs.
Maybe wild wherries could be found nearby fattening on the spring growth in the lower range.
They converged toward the Lady Gemma, hovering undecidedly out of Fax's range like silly wherries disturbed from their roosts.
Herdbeasts within range stampeded wildly and fowls, wherries and whers went into witless hysterics.
Wild wherries, the carrion eaters of Pern, instinctively flocked to the shore, their wings making an ominous line of V's in the southern sky.
But the wherries had not stooped yet though they circled lower and lower with rapacious speed.