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wimble
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wimble \Wim"ble\, n. [OE. wimbil; akin to Dan. vimmel, OD. wemelen to bore. Cf. Gimlet.] An instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle. Specifically:
A gimlet. `` It is but like the little wimble, to let in the greater auger.''
--Selden.A stonecutter's brace for boring holes in stone.
An auger used for boring in earth.
Wimble \Wim"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wimbled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Wimbling.]
To bore or pierce, as with a wimble. ``A foot soldier . . .
wimbled also a hole through said coffin.''
--Wood.
Wimble \Wim"ble\, a. [Cf. Sw. vimmelkantig giddy, whimsical,
dial. Sw. vimmla to be giddy or skittish, and E. whim.]
Active; nimble.[Obs.]
--Spenser.
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.
WordNet
n. hand tool for boring holes [syn: auger, gimlet, screw auger]
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.