Babble

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BABBLE, sb.1 e.Yks. [ba·bl.] A leathern bag with
a stone inside, attached to a string. See Babble, v.1
e.Yks.1
[Bable, pegma, Levins Manip.; Babulle or bable,
librilla, pegma, Prompt. MLat. pegma is thus described
in ‘Catholicon': Pegma, ‘baculus cum massa plumbi in
summitate pendente, et ut dicit Cornutus tali baculo
scenici ludebant’ (cited in Prompt.).]
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BABBLE, sb.2 Wm. Yks. Lan. [ba·bl.]

1. An idle, foolish story; gossip.
   n.Yks.1 Babbles and saunters [aunters, q.v.]; n.Yks.2, ne.Lan.1
   
2. A lie.
   Wm. Never tell your mother a babble (B.K.).
   
3. The noise made by hounds when they give tongue
   before being sure of the scent.
   ne.Lan.1
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   BABBLE, v.1 Obsol. e.Yks. To go round the village
   on the eve of Nov. 5 striking the cottage doors with
   a ‘babble,’ in accordance with an ancient custom.
   e.Yks.1 Now confined to Ottringham, Keyingham, and a few
   other villages.
   Hence Babbling-night, the night of Nov. 4.
   e.Yks.1
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   ‡BABBLE, adj. Sc. Half-witted, idiotic. Cf. babblement.
   n.Sc. There was a poor half-witted girl... known among the
   townspeople as babble Hanah. The word is... applied to
   persons of an idiotical cast of mind, Miller Scenes and Leg. (1853)
   xxix.