wabble
1 Americanverb (used with or without object)
noun
verb
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Etymology
Origin of wabble
Variant of warble 2
Example Sentences
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Observers watched the craft, towed by an automobile, scrape across the ground, rise, wabble, dive, crash.
From Time Magazine Archive
To cure the tendency of rockets to wabble in flight, Dr. Goddard has worked out a small gyroscope that keeps his missiles in line by switching the tail vanes when necessary.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thereupon, in an unlooked-for instant before their livid faces, this ghastly misshapen thing struggled to its naked feet and lurched past them toward the altar, with the faltering wabble of a foundered ox.
From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett
It occurred to him, also, that he was standing on a loose stone which might wabble when he pulled his gun, and he cursed himself silently for his hasty folly.
From Riders of the Silences by Frederick, John
If a bubble of air chance to be enclosed in the film, round it the bacteria will pirouette and wabble until its oxygen has been absorbed, after which all their motions cease.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John
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