[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That bleats; also fig.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Serm., Sel. Wks. I. 139. Bletyng sheep.
1595. Spenser, Col. Clout, 955. To draw their bleating flocks to rest.
1651. Calderwood, Hist. Kirk (1843), II. 157. The queene … and her bleeting preests.
1884. Black, Jud. Shaks., xxxi. Lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the dams’ comfort.
