Gab"ble, n. 1.
Loud or rapid talk without meaning.
Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud
Among the builders.
Milton.
2. Inarticulate sounds rapidly uttered; as of
fowls.
Gab"ble (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Gabbled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Gabbling (?).] [Freq. of gab. See Gab,
v. i.] 1. To talk fast, or to
talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber. Shak.
2. To utter inarticulate sounds with
rapidity; as, gabbling fowls. Dryden.