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Hand tool for boring holes
Answer for the clue "Hand tool for boring holes ", 6 letters:
wimble
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wimble \Wim"ble\, a. [Cf. Sw. vimmelkantig giddy, whimsical, dial. Sw. vimmla to be giddy or skittish, and E. whim.] Active; nimble.[Obs.] --Spenser.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. hand tool for boring holes [syn: auger , gimlet , screw auger ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) active; nimble n. Any of various hand tools for boring holes. v 1 (context transitive English) To truss hay with a wimble. 2 To bore or pierce, as with a wimble.
Usage examples of wimble.
The guid beuk forbids fornication with human beings and bestiality with sheep and other dumb brutes, but it says nocht about wimbling with extra-terrestrial hominoids.
But the point I refer to is this: the old instrument, the trepan, had a handle like a wimble, what we call a brace or bitstock.
Something like this:fi0The Duke of Fortezza Quite frequently gets a Nimpulse to go blithering off on to the blind, But the Duchess starts bimbling And wambling and wimbling And threatens to wallop his ducal behind.
Wimble stubbornly refused to acknowledge the caste system when it came to Delinks.