quavering
English edit
Verb edit
quavering
- present participle and gerund of quaver
Adjective edit
quavering (not comparable)
- Trembling, or prone to trembling and shaking.
Noun edit
quavering (plural quaverings)
- The act of something that quavers.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- the quaverings and warblings in lutes and pipes