wabble

¹ American  

[wob-uhl] / ˈwɒb əl /

verb (used with or without object)

wabbled, wabbling

1. wobble.

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wabble ² American  

[wob-uhl] / ˈwɒb əl /

noun

1. the larva of a botfly, Cuterebra emasculator, that infests squirrels and other rodents, rendering the males sterile.

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wabble British  

/ ˈwɒbəl /

verb

1. a variant spelling of wobble

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Other Word Forms

• wabbler noun
• wabblingly adverb
• wabbly adjective

Etymology

Origin of wabble

Variant of warble ²

Example Sentences

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

All this while they were busy dressing, and Nick made the narrow speed boat wabble fearfully with his movements as he drew on his oilskins.

From Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie by Arundel, Louis

The wardrobe would wabble if it were not secured by a thick rope tied to the rosette on the front.

From Woman by Marx, Magdeleine

Another sort for getting bets upon, to the drop-sight, with a single wabble!

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney