Sekirov Dictionary

warble

UK /ˈwɔːbl̩/US /ˈwɔɹbl̩/

verb 4
noun 4
forms 5

verb4

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To sing like a bird, especially with trills.
- Her voice more sweet than warbling sound, Tho’ sung by nightingale or lark, Her eyes such lustre dart around, Compar’d to them the sun is dark. — 1722
To modulate a tone's frequency.
To cause to quaver or vibrate.
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To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
- The wailings of a maiden I recite, / A maiden fair, that Sparabella hight. / Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat, / Nor the gay goldfinch chaunts so sweet a note, [...] — 1714

noun4

The sound of one who warbles; singing with trills or modulations.
A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma.
A small hard swelling on a horse's back, caused by the galling of the saddle.
In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrowband noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered.

forms

warbled · warbling · warbles · warbleth · warblest

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