wrawl

present singular third person wrawls · participle present wrawling · participle past wrawled · past wrawled

1. intransitiveobsoleteTo cry like a cat; to waul.

   The fog horns groaned and groaned again, and siren whistled and wrawled.

   1908, Will Sparks, Philopolis, volume 3, page 139

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   Some were of dogs, that barked day and night, And some of cats, that wrawling still did cry.

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Such successours [of Peter] yben to bolde, In winning all ther witte thei wral.

   mid 15th century, Thomas Hoccleve, The Plowman's Tale, part 1

   Man alone, poore wretch, she hath laid all naked upon the bare earth, even on his birth-day, to cry and wraule presently from the very first houre that he is borne into this worlde.

   1601, Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, Book VII

   Howbeit, crying and wrawling as like as possibly might be to an infant new come into the world.

   1603, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, Plutarch's Moralia