单词 | on or upon the wamble |
释义 | > as lemmason or upon the wamble 3. An unsteady movement (of a person or thing); a roll of the body; a rolling or staggering gait. on or upon the wamble, staggering, wobbling. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [noun] > an unsteady movement wamble1825 1825 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xix, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 370 When Knight's Quarterly Magazine took a pain in its head, and gied a wamle ower the counter in the dead-thraws. 1881 R. D. Blackmore Christowell (1882) ii The jump of the horse gave a jerk to the shaft, and this..gave a lollop to the near wheel, already on the wamble. 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. xi. 202 Fancy..her bounding walk becoming the regular Hintock shail-and-wamble. < as lemmas |
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