Blēat1, v. i.
[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.