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Wawl   Listen
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Waul  v. i.  (Written also wawl)  To cry as a cat; to squall; to wail. "The helpless infant, coming wauling and crying into the world."



Wawl  v. i.  See Waul.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Wawl" Quotes from Famous Books



... crying, pressed it so close to her bosom as to awaken it, or whether the rumbling and tramping along the road roused its sleeping ear—the child stirred, and began what promised to be a long shrill wawl, if it had not been stopped. How it was stopped, the trembling, sickening mother herself did not know. She only knew that a strong hand wrenched the child from her grasp in the black darkness, and that all was still, unless, as she then and ever after ...
— The Hour and the Man - An Historical Romance • Harriet Martineau



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