wolve

To behave like a wolf.

Verb

To behave like a wolf.
Of an organ, to make a hollow whining sound like that of a wolf.
- 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. - 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the...
Rare form of wolf (“to devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously”).
- He then went to the Crown and Anchor public-house, in the same street, and had two pints of ale, and bread and cheese, the latter of which he “wolved” in a way that “out dando’d Dando.” - 1838 November 16, “Measure for...
- Already, some of the labourers were unstraddling the benches to go, having wolved a plate or two, and their piece of pie. - 1924, Elliot Paul, Imperturbe: A Novel of Peace Without Victory, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A....
- I’d rather be the wolf than be wolved. - 1941 February 25, “Cut-Throat Enemies Outwitted By ‘Desert Rat’ By Sly Tactics”, in Arizona Republic, 51st year, number 283, Phoenix, Ariz., page two, column 4:

From inflected stem of wolf.