2 entries under this word

Bleat

Blēat, v. i.

verbintransitive

[A-S. blætan, L. Ger. blaten, bleten, D. blaten, bleeten, O. H. Ger. blazan, plazan, N. H. Ger. bläken, blöken.] To make the noise of a sheep; to cry as a sheep.

Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. Pope.

Blēat, n.

noun

n. The cry of a sheep. “The bleat of fleecy sheep.” Chapman’s Homer.