Crossword clues for wabble
wabble
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wabble \Wab"ble\ (w[o^]b"b'l), v. i. [Cf. Prov. G. wabbeln to wabble, and E. whap. Cf. Quaver.] To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top wabbles; a buzz saw wabbles.
Wabble \Wab"ble\, n. A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.
Wiktionary
vb. wobble, move to and fro
Usage examples of "wabble".
Squark, the Wabble Effect, the Antigens, his own Theory of Subsequence.
As soon as we stood him on his feet he began to wabble, then stretched out his arms and fell down on his nose.
He finished, and the plane wabbled again, indicating the message received.
Tearling was able to see no visible recoil, but in the sky one of the racing, sausage-like vehicles wabbled visibly and flame gushed from its side.
He saw the rags rise higher and higher above him until at last they tumbled upon the floor from the body of a naked man--a thin, a bony, a hideous caricature of man, that mouthed and mummed and, wabbling upon its weak and shaking legs, crumpled to the floor again, still laughing--laughing horribly.
His chair was a fit companion thereto,--a wabbling, unsteady affair, sometimes with four and sometimes with three legs.
The posts to which these limber poles were nailed at either end sloped in opposite directions, so that while he started across on the upper side he found that when he got to the middle the pole fence began to slant so much up the stream that he must needs climb to the other side, a most difficult and dangerous performance on a fence of wabbling popple poles in the middle of a stream on a very dark night.
There was an index to that prospect in the way Cardiff used his hand to steady himself at moments, for he was walking with a wabble.
His chair was a fit companion thereto,--a wabbling, unsteady affair, sometimes with four and sometimes with three legs.
Squark, the Wabble Effect, the Antigens, his own Theory of Subsequence.
Tearling was able to see no visible recoil, but in the sky one of the racing, sausage-like vehicles wabbled visibly and flame gushed from its side.
Valda laughed just behind him again, and she laughed harder when he tried to explain the work he had been doing on particlesdescribing the Squark, the Wabble Effect, the Antigens, his own Theory of Subsequence.
They came wabbling accustomedly out of the air lock, and at the end of one "arm" each carried a curious, semi-cylindrical black object which they handled as if it might be a weapon.
Lizzic sank clown on the chopping block, her knees wabbling beneath her.