Bum"ble (?), n. [See Bump to boom.] Zool.

The bittern.

[Local, Eng.]

 

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Bum"ble, v. i.

To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern.

As a bittern bumbleth in the mire. Chaucer.

 

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