Ware

//wɛə//

"Ware" in a Sentence (25 examples)

When a robot receives the order for certain merchandise it identifies the shelf containing the ware, lifts it just a few inches off the floor and carries it to a worker, who only has to place the item into a box on a conveyer belt to the shipping department.

As a variety of ware it stands so entirely alone that had it arrived unlabeled no one would have recognized its affinities with Chiriquian art.

Astbury was the more successful and made frequent journeys to London, where he sold his ware and obtained further orders.

On Sunday, a Mr. Stephen Muturi Kamau, aged 20 years, was shot dead at Dandora while he was selling his ware. This is a well known hawker. He has been hawking his ware in Dandora.

What in the world am I going to do with tarnished silver ware? The deeper I dig, I pull out more silver with carved handles.

Artisans sell their ware in the historic district at the lower level of the Soldier's Barracks.

damascene ware, tole ware

And in like wise as she said so they departed, that neither the king nor none of his council were ware of their departing.

But here thou canst not handle aught, neither make the folk ware of thee, not though thou shout thy throat hoarse. For thou and I walk here impalpable and invisible, as it were two dreams walking.

1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.

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c. 1450, Who Ðat Liste Lokeː Ware avoutrer untrue; Such love was never good ne may be true.

c. 1470, The Macro Playsː ‘Ware that!’ quoth Ser Wyly.

Ware cleaners.

He is ware inough; he is wilye, and circumſpect for ſtirring vp any ſedition.

Of whom be thou ware also.

Be he quite wary, as wood is ware of fire, as thigh of bramble or of thistle, he, who may be thinking to mislead these beeves or to mispossess this cattle.

On many of the farms in East Lothian, from 100 to 120 Imperial acres are annually manured with sea-ware; and when I mention that 30 double-cart loads are spread on 1 acre, you may conceive the labour incurred in carting from 3000 to 3600 loads during a short season; for it is only in winter that the ware is cast ashore by storms,[…]

The said farm, having been possessed […] in the deed of 12th July 1794, with the privilege of taking ware from the sea-shore for the use of the farm, and having been let by them to a tenant in 1804, with "liberty of the droven sea-ware, along with the other tenants of the Elie barony, for manuring the farm," […]

Each ware-strand, or beach where drift-weed comes to land, is set apart for a certain number of tenants on the estate to which it belongs, and each 'brook of ware' as it comes ashore is divided among these tenants, usually in proportion to their rents.

The Ship wares bravely, steddy, steddy; she is before it. […] The Ship wares round, so right the Helm; hard up.

[…] [page 67:] He then stood off to windward, and opening his lower parts, wore round under her stern, […] [pages 365-372:] I have previously to observe, that the first part of this question implies that two distinct significations appertain to the signal for waring a fleet in the manner proposed; viz . to ware the sternmost first; and secondly, to ware the sternmost and leewardmost first. […] If to form on the opposite tack, the division L D ware together, and keep away […] [page xxi, glossary:] To Ware (or Veer), is to do the reverse [of Turning in or out or up, tacking to reach an object to windward]; or to turn round by going from the wind and hauling to it gradually; or, as it is termed, coming to the wind upon the other tack. To veer is more properly applied to paying-out or giving out more cable, or hawser; […]

... to ware to the eastward.

[page 44:] If the vessel (being as above, without lower canvas) lie to under bare poles, and from some unexpected cause, such as a ship being discovered at day-light so close upon her to windward, that she must by any means be wore, to avoid the dreadful consequence of the other's falling on board […] [page 73:] When it is necessary to drive on the other tack, she is either wared, box-hauled, or put in stays. […] [page 203:] If this vessel, having these three square sails and a jib, be to ware, or recede from the wind, it appears that the power of the sails abaft the centre of gravity, or[…]

Againſt this ther ware many objections made by the creditors, viz., that quoad the 9000 lƀ. a year contained in his contract of marriage, they ware præferable, being præferable and prior creditors, and ſo he was ſucceſſor titulo lucrativo poſt contractum debitum; and as to the 6000 lƀ. per annum added, 1^(o.) before that letter they had a jus quæſitum by the ſignitor; 2^(do.) They had rights præferable.

c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise A larg concors ware standing round

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