(n.) A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing.
(n.) A long, narrow, light boat, sharp at both ends, for fast rowing or sailing; esp., a racing boat rowed by one person with sculls.
(n.) A liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the verjuice is expressed; -- sometimes called crab wherry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Derivations of the multiple regression equations from anthropometric measurements were made using the Wherry-Doolittle test selection method (Clarke & Clarke, 1972).
(2) Four measurements (triceps, suprailiac, height, and weight) were selected by the Wherry-Doolittle method.
(3) A Wherry-Wherry hierarchical factor solution was obtained on the correlations among 11 WISC-R subtests for a sample of 79 mentally retarded boys and girls.
(4) The Wherry-Wherry hierarchical factor analysis was employed to analyze the 60 X 60 intercorrelation matrix of PBI items.