wemble

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verb

To upend or topple.

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Meanings

verbwemble (third-person singular simple present wembles, present participle wembling, simple past and past participle wembled)

present singular third person wembles · participle present wembling · participle past wembled · past wembled

  1. dialectalTo upend or topple.

    A wembled a sheep trough o' my way, beside the hoäm cloäs pad,

    1895, Samuel Wills, Musings in Moorland and Marsh, page 11
    3 more examples

    Since the worlde firste beganne, Knewe I never such a man, Borne of a deadlike woman, And howe it wembles. Amonge synfull syn dose he non, And cleaneer then ever was any one, Blottles of blude and bone, And wiser then ever man was.

    1843, Thomas Wright, The Chester Plays

    The doomed pig is wembled upon it and tied down preparatory to the fatal thrust, and he is rembled upon it when dead.

    1878, Notes and Queries, page 177

    I saw a boy riding on the pole of a wood-cart, and it soon wembled him off.

    1906, G. Phillips, The Rutland Magazine and County Historical Record, page 125
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