Definitions for "blate"
bashful; timid; sheepish; -- chiefly Scottish.
disposed to avoid notice; "they considered themselves a tough outfit and weren't bashful about letting anybody know it"; (`blate' is a Scottish term for bashful)
Keywords:  plaintively, bleating, cry, lambs
cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating"
Keywords:  calves, goats, sheep
to of sheep, goats, or calves.