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Wiktionary

  1. wabbleverb

    wobble, move to and fro

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Wabbleverb

    A low, barbarous word. To shake; to move from side to side.

    If in your work you find it wabble; that is, that one side of the flat inclines to the right or left hand, with soft blows of an hammer set it to rights, and then screw it hard up. Joseph Moxon.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wabbleverb

    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

  2. Wabblenoun

    a hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro

  3. Etymology: [Cf. Prov. G. wabbeln to wabble, and E. whap. Cf. Quaver.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Wabble

    Wobble, wob′l, v.i. to incline alternately to one side and the other: to rock, to vacillate.—n. a hobbling, unequal motion.—ns. Wabb′ler, Wobb′ler, one who or that which wabbles: a boiled leg of mutton.—adjs. Wabb′ly, Wobb′ly, shaky, given to wabbling.—adj. and n. Wobb′ling, vacillating. [Low Ger. wabbeln, to wabble; cog. with Eng. waver.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wabble in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wabble in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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