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gimbled

Gimlet \Gim"let\, n. [Also written and pronounced gimbled] [OF. guimbelet, guibelet, F. gibelet, prob. fr. OD. wimpel, weme, a bore, wemelen to bore, to wimble. See Wimble, n.] A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.

Gimlet eye, a squint-eye. [Colloq.]
--Wright.

Usage examples of "gimbled".

It was an electric autogun, a cluster of rotating barrels suspended on a gimbled stanchion.