1836. Haliburton, Clockm., Ser. I. xxvii. No wabblin’ of his hind parts, but steady as a pump bolt.
1847. N. Y. Com. Adv. (Bartlett). Leverrier’s calculations gave the mass of the unknown planet, by which the ‘wabblings’ of Herschell were to be set right, at so much.
1861. Emily A. Beaufort, Egypt. Sepulchres (ed. 2), II. xvi. 26. He nearly fell off his mule, with the excess of the wabbling.
1876. Voyle & Stevenson, Milit. Dict. (ed. 3), Wobbling, the unsteady motion of an elongated projectile through the air.
1907. Athenæum, 27 April, 513/2. Here, in our opinion, is a slight wobbling in the artist’s intention.
