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waul

/ wɔːl /

verb

  1. (intr) to cry or wail plaintively like a cat

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of waul1

C16: of imitative origin
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Example Sentences

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No dogs barking, no marauding cats 246 wauling dismally on back fences, no rattle and whiz of “L” cars, no clatter of heavy wagons.

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"Thou must be patient; we came crying hither; Thou knowest the first time that we smell air, We waul and cry."

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Faithful Anton heard this wauling, And involuntarily looking Toward that way: "Good heaven!" said he, "In the garden is the enemy."

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Were we to kill off the wauling cats which make such a mess of the garden, the neighbourhood would lose its best garbingers.

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The town of Warwick hath been right strongly defended and waullid, having a compace of a good mile within the waul.

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