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Webster 1913 Edition

(ra̤l)

Verb.

[Cf. Dan.

vraale

, Sw.

vråla

to brawl, to roar, Dan.

vraal

a bawling, roaring,

vræle

to cry, weep, whine.]

To cry, as a cat; to waul.

[Obs.]

Spenser.

Verb.

To cry, as a cat. [Not in use.]

wrawl ‎(third-person singular simple present wrawls, present participle wrawling, simple past and past participle wrawled)

(obsolete, intransitive) To cry like a cat; to waul.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
- 1908, Will Sparks, Philopolis, volume 3, page 139:
  The fog horns groaned and groaned again, and siren whistled and wrawled.