bleater
- a word derived from bleat.
Example Sentences
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The most effective device, the bleater, is a small rubber squeezer, ball-shaped and equipped with stops.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bleater instruction sheet suggests that the hunter render the fiep with "trembling hands," then promptly swing his gun to his shoulder and brace himself for the charge of a romantic roebuck.
From Time Magazine Archive
Properly manipulated, the bleater emits a "pia" like the cry of a newborn roe; it also trills a realistic "fiep," simulating the call of a doe in rut.
From Time Magazine Archive
I've fired away all my cartridges, and we haven't nailed a single bleater.
From Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good by Tolman, Albert Walter
A bit of a pop-eyed bleater, but on the whole clean and civil, and certainly most informative about newts.
From Right Ho, Jeeves by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
