wobblen.
/ˈwɒbl/, U.S. /ˈwɑb(ə)l/ 1. North American. The great auk, a (now extinct) large flightless bird of the North Atlantic, Pinguinus (or Alca) impennis. rare. Now historical.
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the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Alcidae (auks) > [noun] > genus Alca > alca impennis (great auk (extinct))
penguin1578
wobble1672
gare-fowl1698
1672 J. Josselyn New-Englands Rarities 11 The Wobble, an ill shaped Fowl, having no long Feathers in their Pinions, which is the reason they cannot fly.
1887 Audubon Mag. 1 29/2 The old accounts of these birds—which were known by a variety of names, such as Wobble, Penguin, Moyack and Alke—speak of them as being very abundant.
1924 Maine Naturalist Feb. 1 The Great Auk, Penguin or Wobble, has long since been extinct.
1983 Wilderness Fall 7/2 The ‘wobble’, they called it,..once so plentiful that Atlantic seamen could sweep the birds into their longboats with boards.
2002 Living Bird Winter 12/2 By the time we reached our decision there was very little we did not know about the Great Auk, also known as the garefowl, the penguin, the wobble, the Apponatz.
2.
a. Astronomy. A small periodic variation in the motion of the earth or another celestial object.Chandler wobble: see Chandler n.2
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the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > earth > [noun] > movement of earth > variation in
wobble1699
Chandler wobble1955
1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 286 That direction being nothing but a certain wabble in the Earth's Motion.
1868 W. J. Rolfe & J. A. Gillet Cambr. Course Elem. Physics III. 89 In addition to its regular wabble, the earth's axis has a tremulous motion.
1955 Sci. News Let. 16 Apr. 252/2 Miss Lippincott..plotted the wobble in the path of the visible star caused by its then unseen companion.
1971 Sci. Amer. Dec. 80/2 Recent measurements have shown that the continuous excitation required to maintain the natural wobble of the earth about its rotation axis may be supplied by major earthquakes.
2013 L. Billings Five Billion Years Solitude iii. 54 In multiplanet systems,..each world imparts its own subtle distinct pull to the star, creating a more complicated pattern of wobbles.
b. gen. The action or an act of wobbling; an unsteady movement or rocking motion.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [noun] > wobbling
wobbling1759
wobble1823
1823 Morning Chron. 24 Sept. In a close Neale got the throw, and gave Davy's gizzard a wobble more than was good for his digestive organs.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling iv. 89 The long, slow wobble of a badly spinning bait.
1896 H. G. Wells Wheels of Chance v The bicycle..began an absolutely unprecedented wabble.
1917 E. W. Bell Let. 4 June in L. Housman War Lett. Fallen Englishmen (2002) 42 Let us now zigzag. We do nothing else, not zig to Corsica, and zag to Malta, as I in my ignorance thought, but a positive wobble.
1971 E. L. Doctorow Book of Daniel (1991) i. 54 There was a wobble in the wheels, a small thrump-thrump at sixty-five.
2002 F. Broughton & B. Brewster How to DJ (Properly) 183 A too-big centre hole can cause dangerous side-to-side wobble.
c. In plural. Australian. An affliction of livestock, esp. of cattle, attributed to consumption of the leaves of plants of the family Zamiaceae, characterized by loss of control, and gradual loss of use, of the hindquarters. Cf. rickets n. 2.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > dietary disorders
dew-bolne?1523
hunger-rot?1523
grass-sick1607
grain-sick1834
hoove1840
grass staggers1858
bloat1878
wobbles1886
grain-founder1890
blowing1891
veld sickness1896
corn-stalk disease1900
cattle-sickness1903
Molteno disease1911
grass tetany1931
1886 West Austral. (Perth) 26 Aug. The disease in cattle called ‘ricketts’ or ‘wobbles’.
1895 Queenslander 7 Dec. 1090 Rickets or Wobbles in Cattle.
1947 Western Mail (Perth, Austral.) 2 Oct. 43/4 The zamia nuts appear to be fairly palatable and seem to be responsible for many of the cases of ‘wobbles’ which have been reported.
1992 W. T. Parsons & E. G. Cuthbertson Noxious Weeds Austral. 28/1 Ingestion of the foliage by cattle generally results in an uncoordinated gait, variously described as ‘rickets’, ‘zamia staggers’ or ‘wobbles’, which is irreversible.
2002 R. A. Lewis CRC Dict. Agric. Sci. 671/1 This and other species of Zamia cause wobbles.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > an act of
walmOE
boilc1440
qualm1599
boil-up1727
wobble1733
1733 School of Miniature 81 Boil the Whole in Balneo Mariæ, three or four Wabbles up, and leave it for a Day or two.
a1758 W. Ellis Every Farmer his Own Farrier (1759) 97 When the turpentine is dissolved, put in two ounces of verdigrease, powdered very fine;..let it take two or three wabbles a second time, and then take it off and strain it through a course sieve.
1801 Courier & Evening Gaz. 4 Sept. 2/4 Some kitchen garden philosopher will soon discover that every wabble of the pot wounds the feelings of a cabbage, or destroys the sympathies of a turnip.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 376 Give the meat another wabble.
1881 S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 284 ‘Why, missus, that egg has been boiling this five minutes!’ ‘Ne'er yo' moind! It'll beer anoother wabble.’
4. An instance of hesitation, vacillation, uncertainty, or instability.Originally in figurative contexts with reference to walking unsteadily (cf. wobble v. 1b); later as a figurative use of sense 2b.
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1804 S. T. Coleridge Let. 16 Apr. (1956) II. 1126 The wabble it makes, & staggering between a diss- & a tri-syllable.
1842 Northern Star 30 Apr. 4/2 They look to the straight walking of those who profess to lead them. They will not tolerate a wabble without a warning.
1872 Seymour (Indiana) Times 28 Mar. What effect this new wobble will have over in the confederacy we are unable to predict and don't care to inquire.
1911 Sat. Rev. 19 Aug. 223/1 That is a quite characteristic wobble on the part of Sir Wilfrid Laurier.
1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy i. ii. 40 Twopence a pound on meat may seem negligible but can cause a bad wobble in the week's planning.
2011 Guardian 24 Mar. 24/4 The Tarhuna, another large western tribe, has reaffirmed its support for the regime after an apparent wobble last month.
5. A variation of pitch or strength in the voice; a tremble or quaver; spec. (in singing) excessive or improperly controlled vibrato.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > tremulous quality > a tremble of the voice
quiver1786
wobble1839
1839 Charter 12 May 250/3 The senator muttered in a sonorous wobble, [etc.].
1855 Dwight's Jrnl. Music 3 Mar. 171/2 Her vocalization is sometimes positively slovenly..her shake is not a vibration but a wobble.
1887 Musical World 16 July 550/1 An ill-trained singer..conceals his or her defect by yet another defect... Expression is still absent, and the vibrato-wobble ever present.
1915 Musical Times 56 152/1 The vibrato of a good singer—I don't mean the miserable wobble of a bad one—is the result of pretty much the same operation.
1967 Financial Times 8 May 30/1 In the first two of Strauss's Four Last Songs, which she sang at the beginning of the concert, the high-lying phrases were marred by..excessive wobble.
1993 Guardian (Nexis) 1 May 5 Richard Branson, with a distinctly nervous wobble to his voice, inaugurated Virgin 1215.
1995 T. Owens Bebop 76 Ben Webster..applied an exaggerated ‘lip trill’ to the note..on the tenor saxophone..producing a wobble, or shake.
2004 Gramophone Aug. 71/2 The vibrato that characterises them degenerates into an indistinct wobble, and the countertenors' tuning is a persistent distraction.
6. Biochemistry. The variable, non-Watson–Crick pairing that is possible between a base at the 5′ end of a transfer RNA anticodon and the corresponding base at the 3′ end of a messenger RNA codon. Frequently attributive.Standard or Watson–Crick pairing involves the pairing of adenine with thymine (or uracil) and of guanine with cytosine.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [noun] > genetic information storage > transmission of genetic information > variable pairing
wobble1965
1965 F. H. C. Crick in Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 54 1458 (title) The wobble theory.
1966 F. H. C. Crick in Jrnl. Molecular Biol. 19 551 I now postulate that in the base-pairing of the third base of the codon there is a certain amount of play, or wobble, such that more than one position of pairing is possible.
1982 K. H. Muench in T. M. Devlin Textbk. Biochem. xix. 921 According to the wobble rules 31 different tRNAs would suffice to read the 64 codons.
1992 G. R. Björk in D. L. Hatfield et al. Transfer RNA in Protein Synthesis ii. 44 Thiolated uridines are present in the wobble position in tRNAs specific for Gln, Lys, and Glu.
2013 A. Rutherford Creation: Origin of Life v. 91 In RNA, the letters can pair up in a way that is slightly different from the neat and tidy rungs of the DNA ladder. This, rather sweetly, is called ‘wobble pairing’.
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wobblev.
/ˈwɒbl/, U.S. /ˈwɑb(ə)l/ 1.
a. intransitive. Of a moving object, as a missile, a vehicle, a spinning top, etc.: to travel unsteadily or with continually shifting direction.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)] > wobble > specifically of a piece of mechanism
wobble1678
1603 J. Willoughbie Mnemosynon Kyrio-euchariston 120 That Missaticall one [sc. forme], which is neither in the bread.., nether [sic] sticks it in the clammes of any sacrificious hulkster, neither doth it wabble downe into the stomacke.
1664 J. Wilson Andronicus Comnenius ii. i. 21 Can you blame A Bowl to wabble that hath lost its bias?
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iii. 45 The wheel..would not move perpendicularly, but wabble towards the Fore or Backsides of the Jack frame.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Wabble, to wriggle about as an Arrow sometimes does in the Air.
1741 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman May i. 6 The Foot-Plough..is apt to wabble, and not go so straight as the Wheel one.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Wabble A top wabbles, when it is in motion, and deviates from a perpendicular direction; a spindle wabbles, when it moves one way and the other.
1884 Sat. Rev. 6 Sept. 320/2 A projectile from a smoothbore is apt to ‘wobble’ and go wide.
1929 O. Nash Let. 28 Nov. in Loving Lett. (1990) 71 The Fokker was not fifty yards from us, flying over a plowed field, very low, and wobbling horribly.
1983 L. Niven Integral Trees (1984) x. 104 The harpoon wobbled in flight, until the trailing line dragged it straight again.
2003 Holiday Which? Summer 135/1 Mopeds wobbling along..with a cargo of pigs in wire baskets on the back.
b. intransitive. Of a person or animal: to walk or move from side to side unsteadily or with uncertain direction.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)] > wobble > specifically of animates
wobble1657
1657 [implied in: R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 62 Cockroches, a creature..of a pure hair-colour, which would set him off the better, if he had not an ugly wabling gate. (at wobbling adj.)].
1694 tr. F. Martens Voy. Spitzbergen 86 in Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. This Bird is a Diver... They go wabbling from side to side, as the Divers do.
1749 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 515 James came wabbling on with the broken equipage, his Fribbleship much ruffled.
1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 166 Ye..ran them till they a' did wauble, Far, far, behin'!
1833 T. Carlyle Count Cagliostro in Fraser's Mag. July 23/2 ‘The two pinions on which History soars,’—or flutters and wabbles.
1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry vi. 69 Such a figure I never saw on a horse!..bumping when she trots, and wobbling, when she canters.
1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xii. 155 He closed the door and wabbled swiftly down the long drab hall.
1967 O. Wynd Walk Softly ii. 13 She wobbled slightly on worn-over stilettos.
2015 Daily Mirror 17 Mar. 19 Ollie was really dizzy and wobbling all over the shop before he fainted.
c. intransitive. Of loose flesh, a jelly, etc.: to shake; to quiver.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (intransitive)] > tremble or quiver > as something soft or flabby
quag1596
wobble1748
1748 [implied in: S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xxx. 99 [An old man] Shaking his loose-flesh'd wabbling chaps. (at wobbling adj.)].
1848 H. Mayhew & A. Mayhew Image of Father xvi. 180 As the sailor looked through the wire bars, he saw a large mouth and a double chin wabbling away behind them.
1851 New Monthly Mag. Oct. 127 Round, fat, humming-top-shaped men, upon whose plump limbs the flesh wobbled and trembled as they walked.
1904 A. Ascue Imprudent Prue xvii. 243 Party-coloured turrets of blancmange..wobbled sweetly as the children stamped about the room.
1992 Spectator 7 Nov. 50 Hobhouse comes up with a sentiment so true and so tragic that eyes prick and lip wobbles.
2014 J. Collins Lucky Santangelo Cookbook 146 The custard should wobble like Jell-O, but not be soupy.
d. intransitive. Of something stationary: to rock unsteadily from side to side or backwards and forwards; to admit of side-to-side movement.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)] > wobble
babble1440
cocker1553
cockle1634
wobble1772
wibble1871
woggle1871
1772 Useful, Easy, Direct. for Seamen, who use Hadley's Quadrant vi. 37 The two little screws..are to drive the inner frame and glass tight or taut against the outer frame, that the glass may not wabble.
1817 J. H. Fielding Beauchamp I. xiii. 219 The right foot of..Charles Fitz-Eustace, in his cautious tread, dipped within the china vessel—it wobbled.
1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves xv. 264 You see it well in old women: how the last teeth wobble.
1905 House Beautiful June 11/3 The table wobbles a little, and one of the leaves don't fit quite even, but, savin' that, it's all right.
1954 B. Frechtman & J. T. Nile tr. L.-F. Céline Guignol's Band 128 He's in such a stew his turban's wobbling on his head.
2011 S. Parshall Under Dog Star xvi. 114 The steps wobbled under Tom's weight.
e. transitive. To cause to move or rock unsteadily from side to side or backwards and forwards.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > cause to move unsteadily [verb (transitive)] > cause to wobble
wobble1816
1816 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges vii. 189 The piles are then wabbled about, by swaying upon the guys.
1875 L. L. Greene Gilbert's Shadow ii. 16 If you wobble the boat in the way you are doing you'll roll all the cabbages into the bilgewater!
1921 J. Whitall tr. ‘P. Hamp’ People 50 M. Jean..wobbled the half-empty shelf: ‘Are you going to be able to fix that?’
1974 Pop. Mech. Feb. 73/2 Pressing downward on the sides of the [toilet] bowl, rotate or wobble it until its base is resting firmly on the floor.
1998 H. Mantel Giant, O'Brien (1999) xi. 166 He carefully inspected the chair with the dint. He frowned over it, wobbled it from side to side.
f. intransitive. Astronomy. Of the earth or another celestial object: to undergo a slight periodic variation in motion. Cf. wobble n. 2a.
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1847 [implied in: N.Y. Commerc. Advertiser 27 Oct. 2 Leverrier's calculations gave the mass of the unknown planet, by which the ‘wabblings’ of Herschell [sc. the planet Uranus] were to be set right, at so much. (at wobbling n.)].
1895 Evening Post (Denver) 24 Apr. 4/4 Some of the scientific papers are asking whether the earth wobbles while it revolves.
1940 Studies 29 289 The celestial pole to which all stellar positions are referred describes a large circle in the sky once in twenty-six thousand years because the earth wobbles like a top nearing the end of its spin.
1989 Discover Oct. 14/1 They have tried to find a dwarf whose gravity is causing a..star nearby to wobble.
2005 M. Bjornerud Reading Rocks iii. 68 The gravitational interaction of the Sun and Moon with Earth's rotational bulge causes the Earth to precess, or wobble.
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the world > matter > gas > gas or air in liquid or effervescence > effervesce [verb (intransitive)]
burble1303
blubberc1400
bubblea1475
buller1535
seethe1535
bell1598
huff1707
wobble1725
effervesce1784
sotter1834
blob1855
upbubble1865
petillate1942
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > boil [verb (intransitive)]
wallc1000
well?a1200
boila1225
seethea1400
ebulliate1599
qualm1599
walm1610
ebullate1623
wamble1636
wobble1725
1725 New Canting Dict. Wobble, to boil. The Pot wobbles, i.e. The Pot boils.
1766 Genuine Coll. Several Pieces 102 Ye Graphists of Grub Street, who scrawl about what Ye don't care a fig, So 'twill wobble the Pot.
1786 Town & Country Mag. Feb. 66/2 Mrs. M——y..was reduced to the necessity of parading the Park, to make easy conquests, that the pot might wabble, at least every other day.
1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 397 Sir Frederick smoked his chilum..and whiffed and ‘wobbled’, and wore away the evening.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 376 Wabble, to boil fast.
1893 J. Askham Sketches in Prose & Verse 96 The kettle sings a merry song, or the pot ‘wobbles’ in comfortable notes.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > corrugation > corrugate [verb (transitive)] > wrinkle or crease > crumple
scrumplec1600
crumple1632
rafflec1728
wobble1854
cringle1880
crush1893
1854 G. G. Foster Fifteen Minutes around N.Y. xii. 46 What enormous strides the women take, with their beautiful silks and fresh summer muslins wabbled up ingloriously about their ancles!
1865 E. H. Savage Chronol. Hist. Boston Watch & Police 141 I took up the letter, which was much wabbled up, and on straightening it out, found the upper left-hand corner torn off.
1884 E. P. Roe in Harper's Mag. June 88/1 To keep the net straight, and not all tangled and wobbled up.
1905 L. E. Richards Armstrongs xiii. 56 The cover of one book is quite wobbled up, but the print is just as good.
4. intransitive. To hesitate or waver between different opinions or courses of action; to vacillate, exhibit uncertainty.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)]
haltc825
flecchec1300
waverc1315
flickerc1325
wag1387
swervea1400
floghter1521
stacker1526
to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530
wave1532
stagger1533
to hang in the wind1536
to waver as, like, with the wind1548
mammer1554
sway1563
dodge1568
erch1584
suspend1585
float1598
swag1608
hoverc1620
hesitate1623
vacillate1623
fluctuate1634
demur1641
balance1656
to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674
to stand shall I, shall I1674
to go shill-I shall-I1700
to stand at shilly-shally1700
to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734
whiffle1737
dilly-dally1740
to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751
oscillate1771
shilly-shally1782
dacker1817
librate1822
humdrum1825
swing1833
(to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848
to back and fill1854
haver1866
wobble1867
shaffle1873
dicker1879
to be on the weigh-scales1886
waffle1894
to think twice1898
to teeter on the brink1902
dither1908
vagulate1918
pern1920
1867 New Albany (Indiana) Daily Commerc. 6 Mar. If he can wobble towards Conservatism long enough to get appointment, and then wobble into Radicalism long enough to be confirmed, he can get through.
1870 Boston Daily Advertiser 5 Nov. One Portland paper annihilates another by saying that it ‘wobbles in opinion on literary matters’.
1884 Bath Herald 20 Sept. 3/1 The Standard..has..wobbled back to its old ways.
1906 G. W. E. Russell Social Silhouettes 161 If you wobble or rat or play the Candid Friend, you are only too likely to find yourself cast at the next election.
1950 Changing Times June 2/1 Farmers are wobbling. They like the prospect of a subsidy which the Democrats offer, but they hate the very idea of the controls that go along with it.
1997 S. Scates W. G. Magnuson & Shaping 20th-cent. Amer. xxiv. 241 If he wobbled on what to do about Vietnam, Maggie remained steadfast in this belief of the right to dissent.
5. intransitive. Of a sound, esp. the voice: to vary slightly in pitch or strength; to quaver; to tremble, esp. as an involuntary manifestation of emotion.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [verb (intransitive)] > tremble
trill1667
quaver1727
wobble1885
1885 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 13 Feb. 6/5 His [sc. a singer's] voice wobbles too much.
1903 G. H. Lorimer Lett. Merchant xix. 288 He..shouted ‘Hello!’ in what he tried to make a big, brave voice, but it wobbled a little all the same.
1968 Times 4 Nov. 6/6 She sings so carelessly.., forcing tone until the voice wobbles.
1994 C. Packer Into Afr. 183 The recording was awful. The sound wobbled and faded in and out.
1995 K. Ishiguro Unconsoled xxi. 300 I paused in an attempt to stop my voice wobbling.
2008 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 7 Aug. 1 e Wirtzfield draws the bow across to produce a sound that wobbles, whirs like an engine.
Compounds
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1912 F. Soddy Matter & Energy v. 126 There must be continual readjustments, as the temperature is rising and falling, between the path-energy, spin-energy, and wobble-energy.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > [noun] > heat produced by specific means
sand-heat1612
steam heat1825
wobble-heat1899
1899 N. Lockyer in Nature 20 Apr. 585/2 To get concrete images of these effects we spoke of path-heat, spin-heat, and wobble-heat.
1912 F. Soddy Matter & Energy v. 125 A colloquial way of describing these various kinds of heat energy is by the terms path-heat, spin-heat, and wobble-heat. In the first the molecule moves as a whole, in the second it spins or rotates as a whole, and in the third its parts or atoms move with reference to one another.
wobble plate n. Mechanics a plate mounted at an angle on a shaft in order to impart a reciprocating motion to a part in contact with it; = swash-plate n. at swash adv., int., and n.1 Compounds 2; often attributive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > shaft > [noun] > parts of > which imparts motion
swash-platea1877
wobble plate1904
thrust-ring1906
wobbler plate1950
1904 Canad. Patent Office Rec. May 1150/1 Connecting and disconnecting means for said members consisting of a wabble plate mounted on the driven member to be drawn into frictional contact with said driving member.
1929 V. W. Pagé Mod. Aviation Engines II. xlvi. 1897 A peculiar ‘wobble’ plate mechanism replaces the usual crankshaft arrangement.
1943 R. C. Binder Fluid Mech. viii. 107 The nutating-disk meter or wobble-plate meter..is frequently used to meter the water supply for domestic use.
2007 C. W. de Silva Sensors & Actuators vii. 605 As the wobble plate rotates, the proximity of the plate to each nozzle changes periodically.
wobble saw n. a circular saw mounted at an angle on its spindle so as to cut a groove wider than its own thickness.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > power saws > circular saws
circular saw1815
buzz1823
table saw1832
sawing-bench1845
saw-bench1846
buzz-saw1858
wobble saw1872
slasher1892
rift saw1906
Skilsaw1925
burr-saw-
1872 Ann. Rep. State Prison Commissioner Wisconsin 73 in State of Wisconsin Governor's Message & Accompanying Documents (1873) II. Machinery, Tools and Appurtenances... Cabinet and Chair Shop... Wabble saw table.
1917 H. W. Durham Saws 53 ‘Drunken’ or ‘Wobble’ saws.
1948 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 204/2 The edges of a groove..cut with a wobble saw will be angled unless it is made in a series of shallow cuts.
2004 Tool & Machinery Catal. 2005 (Axminster Power Tool Centre Ltd.) i. 75/2 The wobble saws are intended for use on spindle moulders only.
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