▪ I. wobbling, vbl. n.
(ˈwɒblɪŋ)
[f. wobble v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. wobble.
| 1836 Haliburton Clockm. Ser. i. xxvii, No wabblin' of his hind parts, but steady as a pump bolt. a 1848 N.Y. Com. Adv. (Bartlett) Leverrier's calculations gave the mass of the unknown planet, by which the ‘wabblings’ of Herschell were to be set right, at so much. 1861 E. A. Beaufort Egypt. Sepulchres II. xvi. 26 He nearly fell off his mule with the excess of the wabbling. 1876 Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. (ed. 3), Wobbling, the unsteady motion of an elongated projectile through the air. 1907 Athenæum 27 Apr. 513/2 Here..is a slight wobbling in the artist's intention. |
▪ II. wobbling, ppl. a.
(ˈwɒblɪŋ)
[f. wobble v. + -ing2.]
That wobbles, in senses of the vb.
| 1657 R. Ligon Barbadoes 62 Cockroches, a creature..of a pure hair-colour, which would set him off the better, if he had not an ugly wabling gate. 1748 Richardson Clarissa VI. 99 [An old man] Shaking his loose-flesh'd wabbling chaps. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. IV. 140 Its [sc. the bat's] evening flight and its unsteady wabbling motion amuse the imagination. 1821 Clare Vill. Minstr., Rustic Fishing 46 Still wobbling curves keep wavering like a bite. 1883 Grove Dict. Mus. III. 509/2 His whole singing was a bad wobbling trill. 1884 J. H. Walsh Mod. Sportsman's Gun II. 7 When discharged from a smooth bore,..an oscillating or ‘wobbling’ flight is produced. 1898 Catholic News 21 May 8/4 It cannot be said that the constituency is a wobbling one. |