Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A disease of cattle characterized by the loss of coordination and irregular gait, caused by eating certain toxic plants.
- The lesion or swelling which appears under the skin of cattle at various parts of the body caused by the warble of the ox gadfly. Also called
warbles .
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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
wabble .
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Examples
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The bicycle had what is called the "wabbles," and had them very badly.
What Is Man? and Other Essays Mark Twain 1872
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Yes | No | Report from saintdeer wrote 42 weeks 3 days ago did you see the guy who got up from his stool and wabbles over to the cat? he was wasted! should show to my kids and be like, "look what alcohol does to you boys, makes you a jackass!" all you libs out there, yah, lets just not hunt anymore and see how many more times this happens!
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Yes | No | Report from saintdeer wrote 42 weeks 3 days ago did you see the guy who got up from his stool and wabbles over to the cat? he was wasted! should show to my kids and be like, "look what alcohol does to you boys, makes you a jackass!" all you libs out there, yah, lets just not hunt anymore and see how many more times this happens!
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She wabbles on one side an 'then on the other, so I can see chunks o' sky ahead right under her.
The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various
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The section from the north end of the bridge to the railroad station has a grade that wabbles between 50 and 500 feet to the mile and jerks back and forth sideways as though laid by a gang of intoxicated men on a dark night.
The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin James Herbert Walker
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See how it wabbles, will you, fellows, and how low down over the trees it hangs.
Boy Scouts on a Long Hike Or, To the Rescue in the Black Water Swamps Archibald Lee Fletcher
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In this manner from six to twelve dozen glasses are ground at once by one basin working within the other on an eccentric axle which _wabbles_ the inner basin while it is revolved.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 404, December 12, 1829 Various
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When it wabbles like this it is in neutral and the car will not run.
Eve to the Rescue Ethel Hueston 1933
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I admire it when it stands firmly upon its legs, and I love it when it wabbles.
The River and I John G. Neihardt 1927
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But in the main it lumbers and jolts, wabbles and bores.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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