Meaning of wrawl | Babel Free

Definitions

To cry like a cat; to waul.

intransitive, obsolete

Examples

“Some were of dogs, that barked day and night, And some of cats, that wrawling still did cry.”

“Such successours [of Peter] yben to bolde, In winning all ther witte thei wral.”

“The fog horns groaned and groaned again, and siren whistled and wrawled.”

“Man alone, poore wretch, she hath laid all naked upon the bare earth, even on his birth-day, to cry and wraule presently from the very first houre that he is borne into this worlde.”

“Howbeit, crying and wrawling as like as possibly might be to an infant new come into the world.”

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