wabbled

She threw the hoop and it "wabbled," but Betty, a bright, black-eyed girl, made a lunge or two, and caught it on the tip of one stick, and back it came.

A Little Girl in Old Boston Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

For my part, I used to like a grindstone that "wabbled" a good deal on its axis, for when I turned it fast, it put the grinder on a lively lookout for cutting his hands, and entirely satisfied his desire that I should "turn faster."

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864

"wabbled" a good deal on its axis, for when I turned it fast, it put the grinder on a lively lookout for cutting his hands, and entirely satisfied his desire that I should "turn faster."

Being a Boy Charles Dudley Warner 1864

Wiwau prodded with the goad, and Tiha stumbled and wabbled in gymnastic efforts to make speed.

CHAPTER XIV 2010

That voice ceased and was replaced by another, which wavered and wabbled from the electron-spurts normal to solar systems and which make for auroras on planets.

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He resumed the treadles, staring away before him, jolted over a stone, wabbled, recovered, and began riding faster at once, with his eyes ahead.

The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006

He closed the door and wabbled swiftly down the long drab hall of the “railroad flat,” evidently trying to walk straight.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

They had made it out of an oblong box, with wheels so rudely and imperfectly rounded, that they wabbled fearfully and at times gave way under the body; just as they did with the wagons that the boys I knew seventy years ago used to make.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

He blinked his eyes blindly a few times, wabbled on his legs, threw up his hands, and staggered back.

Sister Carrie 2004

But he wabbled on until he finished the work, fifteen minutes after Tim had given out.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004