wabble

noun

A rocking, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung or a top imperfectly balanced.

To incline to the one side and to the other alternately, as a wheel, top, spindle, or other rotating body when not properly balanced; move in the manner of a rotating disk when its plane vibrates from side to side; rock; vacillate.

Hence To vacillate, vibrate, tremble, or exhibit unevenness, in senses other than mechanical.

To cause to wabble: as, to wabble one’s head.

noun

The larva of the emasculating bot-fly, Cutiterebra emasculator, which infests squirrels in the United States; also, the injury or affection resulting from its presence. See warble, and cut under Cutiterebra. Also worble.

noun

An old name of the great auk, Alca impennis. Josselyn, New England Rarities Discovered.

noun

A hobbling, unequal motion, as of a wheel unevenly hung; a staggering to and fro.

intransitive verb

To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; — said of a turning or whirling body.

verb

wobble, move to and fro