Bleated

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bleat \Bleat\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bleated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Bleating}.] [OE. bleten, AS. bl?tan; akin to D. blaten,
     bleeten, OHG. bl[=a]zan, pl[=a]zan; prob. of imitative
     origin.]
     To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry
     like a sheep or calf.


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           Then suddenly was heard along the main,
           To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. --Pope
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           The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will
           never answer a calf when he bleats.      --Shak.
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