Wabble

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. Variant of wobble.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. wobble, move to and fro
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body.
  • n. A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To incline to the one side and to the other alternately, as a wheel, top, spindle, or other rotating body when not properly balanced; move in the manner of a rotating disk when its plane vibrates from side to side; rock; vacillate.
  • Hence To vacillate, vibrate, tremble, or exhibit unevenness, in senses other than mechanical.
  • To cause to wabble: as, to wabble one's head.
  • n. A rocking, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung or a top imperfectly balanced.
  • n. The larva of the emasculating bot-fly, Cutiterebra emasculator, which infests squirrels in the United States; also, the injury or affection resulting from its presence. See warble, and cut under Cutiterebra. Also worble.
  • n. An old name of the great auk, Alca impennis. Josselyn, New England Rarities Discovered.
  • Word Usage
    "He found the mere repetition of the word "wabble" sufficient to produce almost inextinguishable mirth."
    Verb Form
    wabbled    wabbles    wabbling   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    vacillate    sway    shaken   
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