wabble
1 Americanverb (used with or without object)
noun
verb
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of wabble
Variant of warble 2
Example Sentences
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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
Observers watched the craft, towed by an automobile, scrape across the ground, rise, wabble, dive, crash.
From Time Magazine Archive
He seemed to wabble more or less, and looked back over his shoulder many times.
From The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound A Tour on Skates and Iceboats by Warren, George A.
They had all realized what it was that made his knees wabble as he crossed to the door; they understood what had drained his face of all its color.
From Once to Every Man by Fischer, Anton Otto
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
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