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waul
/ ɔː /
verb
(intr) to cry or wail plaintively like a cat
Word History and Origins
Origin of waul1
Example Sentences
No dogs barking, no marauding cats 246 wauling dismally on back fences, no rattle and whiz of “L” cars, no clatter of heavy wagons.
"Thou must be patient; we came crying hither; Thou knowest the first time that we smell air, We waul and cry."
Faithful Anton heard this wauling, And involuntarily looking Toward that way: "Good heaven!" said he, "In the garden is the enemy."
Were we to kill off the wauling cats which make such a mess of the garden, the neighbourhood would lose its best garbingers.
The town of Warwick hath been right strongly defended and waullid, having a compace of a good mile within the waul.
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