Now rare. [Cf. prec.] trans. To give a blow or slap to; † occas. transf. with the blow as object. Also fig.
1599. Minsheu, Cacheteádo, whirreted on the cheeke.
1678. Littleton, Lat. Dict., II. s.v. Pugnus, To box or wherret one.
a. 1693. Urquhart’s Rabelais, III. vi. 59. Their most considerable Knocks had been … jerked and whirrited within the Curtines of his Sweet-heart.
1711. Swift, Jrnl. to Stella, 20 Sept. The Whigs are in a rage about the peace, but we’ll wherret them, I warrant.
1866. Whittier, Marg. Smith’s Jrnl., Prose Wks. 1889, I. 49. The Deacon … seeing him in this way, wherreted him smartly with his cane.
