warble

About 0.13 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To modulate a tone's frequency.
2. verb To sing like a bird, especially with trills.
3. verb To cause to quaver or vibrate.
4. verb To be quavered or modulated; to be uttered melodiously.
5. noun The sound of one who warbles; singing with trills or modulations.
6. noun In naval mine warfare, the process of varying the frequency of sound produced by a narrowband noisemaker to ensure that the frequency to which the mine will respond is covered.
7. noun A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma.
8. noun A small hard swelling on a horse's back, caused by the galling of the saddle.

Similar words

quaver descant yodel trill sing wobulate vagitate tone bombilate chirl

Often followed by

of fly in flies and a forth tone tones

Word family

warbled warbles warbling