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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bleat \Bleat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bleated}; p. pr & vb n.
{Bleating}.] [OE. bleten AS bl?tan; akin to D. blaten,
bleeten OHG. bl[=a]zan, pl[=a]zan; prob. of imitative
origin.]
To make the noise of or one like that of a sheep; to cry
like a sheep or calf.
Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox
to bleat the woolly train. --Pope
The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will
never answer a calf when he bleats. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bleat \Bleat\, n.
A plaintive cry of or like that of a sheep.
The bleat of fleecy sheep. --Chapman's
Homer.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bleat
n : the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)
v 1: talk whiningly
2: cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating" [syn: {blate}, {blat},
{baa}]
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