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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of gimlet.

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Examples

  • "No; but he gimleted you, all right," Hopalong replied.

    The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Franklin K. [Editor] Mathiews

  • "Black spindle-legs curled up to meet red-gimleted black faces, donkeys headless and legless, or sieves of shrapnel; camels with necks writhed back on to their humps, rotting already in pools of blood and bile-yellow water, heads without faces, and faces without anything below, cobwebbed arms and legs, and black skins grilled to crackling on smouldering palm-leaf -- don't look at it."

    From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

  • The lady gimleted us again one by one with her blue eyes.

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • "No; but he gimleted you, all right," Hopalong replied.

    Bar-20 Days Clarence Edward Mulford 1919

  • He gimleted all over the space back of the plate before he finally made out the ball coming to earth many feet in front of him.

    The Dozen from Lakerim Rupert Hughes 1914

  • The chill eyes of Goodheart gimleted into those of his assistant.

    A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • It lay, too, in the glitter of the cold eyes that gimleted mine sharply.

    The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • From first to last the case was bitterly contested, and always with the realization among those present -- except for that somber figure in black, whose beady eyes gimleted the defendant -- that it was another move in the fight between the rival copper kings.

    Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • Vaniman could not understand what he was saying, but the sharp questions that were interjected by the manager of the affair -- the queries that gimleted for additional information -- suggested the line of confession that Britt was giving forth.

    When Egypt Went Broke Holman Day 1900

  • And then, so that I might not perjure myself on the witness-stand or have the truth gimleted out of me by lawyers, I put on rags and hid myself among the thousands who trudge the highways and ride the trusses of freight-cars.

    The Landloper Holman Day 1900

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