[f. WARBLE sb.2] Of hides: Injured by warbles.
1885. Athenæum, 11 July, 52. The cattle producer … receives … almost the same amount for the warbled hide of the animal as he would obtain if it were uninjured by the bot fly.
1886. Daily News, 5 May, 3/5. No less than 1,906 [hides] were ‘warbled’—that is to say more or less riddled or scarred from warble attacks.
