Sc. and dial. Forms: see next. [f. next.] An overturn, upset, overthrow; a state of confusion.
1818. Scott, Rob Roy, xxii. Nae doubt, nay doubt—ay, ay—it’s an awfu’ whummle—and for ane that held his head sae high too.
1822. Galt, Sir A. Wylie, civ. The chaise made a clean whamle, and the Laird was lowermost. Ibid. (1830), Lawrie T., III. v. Many a joint-dislocking jolt, and almost headlong whamle.
1887. Jamieson’s Sc. Dict., Suppl., Quhemle … a rock, toss; a rocking, tossing.
1895. Crockett, Men of Moss-Hags, xlviii. His horse also fell from rock to rock, and among a great whammel of stones, reached the bottom of the defile as soon as its master.
