wolve

From inflected stem of wolf.

• IPA^(key): /wʊlv/
• Rhymes: -ʊlv

wolve (third-person singular simple present wolves, present participle wolving, simple past and past participle wolved)

1. To behave like a wolf.
2. Of an organ, to make a hollow whining sound like that of a wolf.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 784:

     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.

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