quavering

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

QUA'VERING, participle present tense Shaking the voice or the sound of an instrument. QUA'VERING, noun The act of shaking the voice, or of making rapid vibrations of sound on an instrument of music.
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