wabber (wober)

Same as cony, 2. wabble1, wobble (wob'l), v.; pret. and pp. wabbled, wobbled, ppr. wabbling, wobbling. [ 427 of wapper, freq. of wap1: see wap1.] I. in trans. 1. To incline to the one side and to the other alternately, as a wheel, top, spindle, or other rotating body when not properly balanced; move in the manner of a rotating disk when its plane vibrates from side to side; rock; vacillate. To wabble . [a low barbarous word). Johnson, Dict. When.. the top falls on to the table, it falls into a certain oscillation, described by the expre ive though inelegant word - wabbling . H. Spencer , First Principles, § 170. It [a pendulum) should be symmetrical on each side of the middle plane of its vibration, or it will wobble . Sir E. Beckett , Clocks and Watches, p. 42. Hence-2. To vacillate, vibrate, tremble, or exhibit unevenne , in senses other than mechanical. [Colloq.] Ferri made use of the tremolo upon every note, to such an extent that his whole singing was a bad wobbling trill. Grove, Dict. Music, III. 509. II. trans. To cause to wabble: as, to wabble one's head. [Colloq.] wabble, wobble (wob'l), n . [ The wind had raised a middling stiff wobble on the water, and the boat jumped and tumbled in a very lively manner. W. C. Ru ell, Jack's Courtship, xx.