What does "bleating" mean?
Bleating: Crying as a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.
Additional senses
- 2.The cry of, or as of, a sheep. Chapman.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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