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tremblor

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trem⋅bler

  [trem-bler]
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–noun
1. a person or thing that trembles.
2. an oscine bird, Cinclocerthia ruficauda, of the Lesser Antilles, related to the thrashers, noted for its habit of trembling violently.
3. Also, tremblor. Informal. a temblor.
Origin:
1545–55; tremble + -er 1
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tremblor 
"earthquake," 1913, alt. of temblor, by infl. of trembler.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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