▪ I. † ˈworble, v. Sc. Obs.
[var. warble v.3; cf. wrabble v.]
intr. To wriggle, writhe; to wallow.
| a 1598 Rollock Serm. Wks. 1849 I. 444 We wer..then worbling [ed. 1616 warbling] and waltering in our awin sinne and filthinesse. a 1600 Montgomerie Sonn. xlvii. 10 Vhy haif I not, O God, als blunt a [braine] As he that daylie worbleth in the wyne. 1808 Jamieson s.v. Wrabil, S. warble, wurble: as to wurble in or out. |
▪ II. worble
variant of warble n.2