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Wabble   Listen
noun
Wabble  n.  A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.



verb
Wabble  v. i.  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; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Wabble" Quotes from Famous Books



... sort of a plowshare—a gold sod-cutter about the size of your finger-nail. How Mike got it to stick I don't know, but he must have picked up quite a number of dentist's tricks before I came. Anyhow, there she hung like a brass name-plate, and she didn't wabble hardly at all. You'd of been surprised to see what a difference it made in that ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach

... that day were very good for the time, but they seem very curious to us. He says, "Do not wabble with your stool," because rough home-made stools were the common chairs then, and the floors, made of boards that were split and not sawed, were so uneven that a noisy child could easily rock his stool to ...
— Stories of American Life and Adventure • Edward Eggleston



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