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