[f. WOBBLE v. + -ING2.] That wobbles, in senses of the vb.
1657. Ligon, Barbadoes, 62. Cockroches, a creature … of a pure hair-colour, which would set him off the better, if he had not an ugly wabling gate.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, VI. 99. [An old man] Shaking his loose-flesh’d wabbling chaps.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist., IV. 140. Its [sc. the bat’s] evening flight and its unsteady wabbling motion amuse the imagination.
1821. Clare, Vill. Minstr., Rustic Fishing, 46. Still wobbling curves keep wavering like a bite.
1883. Grove, Dict. Mus., III. 509/2. His whole singing was a bad wobbling trill.
1884. J. H. Walsh, Mod. Sportsman’s Gun, II. 7. When discharged from a smooth bore,… an oscillating or ‘wobbling’ flight is produced.
1898. Catholic News, 21 May, 8/4. It cannot be said that the constituency is a wobbling one.
