wabble

present singular third person wabbles · participle present wabbling · participle past wabbled · past wabbled

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of wobble.

   Their planes wabble, the metal frame work is too stiff, it doesn't yield to the air pressure."

   1911, Milo Hastings, In the Clutch of the War-God

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   He could clearly perceive that the little blue lights were borne by Dwarfs, whose pale clay-coloured faces, with their huge noses and red eyes, disfigured too by birds' bills and owls' eyes, were supported by misshapen bodies; and they tottered and wabbled about here and there, so that they seemed to be at the same time merry and in pain.

   1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 215

   Presently, as the sustaining centrifugal force lessened and failed, she began to sway and wabble from side to side, and finally, toppling over on her side, rolled convulsively on her back and lay motionless with all her feet in the air, honestly believing that the world had somehow got atop of her and she was supporting it at a great sacrifice of personal comfort.

   1966, Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8