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[See def.] "A gapere and a gabbere ." -Chaucer: Parson's Tale. găb-ble, v . i . & t . [A frequent. from gab (q. v.).] A. Intransitive : 1. To chatter, to prate, to talk idly and noisily. "Have ye no wit, manners, nor honesty, but to gabble like tinkers at this time of night?"- Shakesp . Twelfth Night , ii. 3. 2. To utter inarticulate sounds; to jabber. "[They] Gabbled for diversion, they hi ed in scandal." -Guardian , No. 56. B. Trans.: Τo utter noisily or inarticulately; to jabber. găb-ble, s . [GABBLE, v.] 1. Loud or rapid talk, without meaning; confused noise of talking. "Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud Among the builders." Milton: P. L., xii. 56. 2. Inarticulate noise, like that of brute animals. "Not to know what we speak one to another, so we seem to know, is to know strait our purpose: chough's lanWell that Ends Well , iv. 1. IMG:content-0260.png:[blocks in formation] gab-hook, s. Steam-eng.: [GAB, 8., II.] IMG:content-0261.png:[blocks in formation] gabeler