Obs. [app. a real or supposed Norw. word: cf. Norw. varde (dial. vale) cairn.] A cairn, pile of stones (in Scandinavian regions).
1584. R. Norman, trans. Safegard of Sailers, 51. Item, if it were so that you would saile into Calle sound, then you shall hale in by a high land which is called Winge, and there stands fiue Warlocks or Bomes vpon it. Ibid. The fiue Warlocks or Beacons. Ibid., 52 b.
1612. Gatonbe, in Churchill’s Voy. (1732), VI. 250. We rowed about the cape and came to an island whereon was a warlock.
1614. R. Fotherby, in Purchas, Pilgrims (1625), III. 725. Here vpon the mountaine wee set vp a Warelocke, and then came downe againe.
