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 2007, p. 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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