Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A dialectal form of
whemmle .
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Examples
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They waited in silence, in which they heard the whummle and screech of the wind outside and the angry squalling of the sheathing of the plunging schooner's cabin walls.
Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900
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a whummle an 'a rum'le an' a remish as this Lon'on, to ken 'at there is sic a cave howkit oot o' the din, 'at he can gang intill an' say his prayers intill!
The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864
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