WABBLE
\wˈɒbə͡l], \wˈɒbəl], \w_ˈɒ_b_əl]\
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To shake unsteadily from side to side, or back and forth; hence, to away or totter; To lack firmness.
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A rocking or swaying motion. Also, wobble.
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Wabbled.
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Wabbling.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To incline to the one side and to the other alternately, as a wheel, top, spindle, or other rotating body when not properly balanced: to move in the manner of a rotating disc when its plane vibrates from side to side: to rock: to vacillate: as, a millstone in motion sometimes wabbles. Moxon.
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A rocking unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung or a top imperfectly balanced.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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