Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Wherry

Wherry , noun

[Compare Icelandic hverfr shifty, crank, hverfa to turn, English whirl, wharf.]

(a)
(Nautical) A passenger barge or lighter plying on rivers; also, a kind of light, half-decked vessel used in fishing.
(b)
(Nautical) A long, narrow, light boat, sharp at both ends, for fast rowing or sailing; esp., a racing boat rowed by one person with sculls. [English]

Wherry , noun

[Compare Welsh chwerw bitter.]

A liquor made from the pulp of crab apples after the verjuice is expressed; -- sometimes called crab wherry. [Provincial English] — Halliwell