wemble

English

Etymology

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Verb

wemble (third-person singular simple present wembles, present participle wembling, simple past and past participle wembled)

1. (dialect) To upend or topple.
   • 1843, Thomas Wright, The Chester Plays:

     Since the worlde firste beganne, Knewe I never such a man, Borne of a deadlike woman, And howe it wembles. Amonge synfull syn dose he non, And cleaneer then ever was any one, Blottles of blude and bone, And wiser then ever man was.

   • 1878, Notes and Queries, page 177:

     The doomed pig is wembled upon it and tied down preparatory to the fatal thrust, and he is rembled upon it when dead.

   • 1895, Samuel Wills, Musings in Moorland and Marsh, page 11:

     A wembled a sheep trough o' my way, beside the hoäm cloäs pad,

   • 1906, G. Phillips, The Rutland Magazine and County Historical Record, page 125:

     I saw a boy riding on the pole of a wood-cart, and it soon wembled him off.