jabble

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When two tides meet there is ever a cruel commotion, and ships are apt to be dashed on the rocks, and Carmichael's mind was in a "jabble" that day.

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  1. To jabber; gabble. To iabil, multum loqui. Levins, Manip. Vocab. (E. E. T. S.), p. 126.
  2. To splash, as water; cause to splash, as a liquid. [Scots.]
  3. A slight agitation on the surface of a liquid; small irregular waves running in all directions. [Scots.] The steamer jumped, and the black buoys were dancing in the jabble. R. L. Stevenson, Silverado Squatters, p. 12

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  1. Early modern English jabil (for *jabel); an assibilated form of gabble, as gabber is of gabber.
  2. Also jable; prob. freq. of a form represented by jaup: see jaup, v., 2.
  3. from jabble, v.
 

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