wimble

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And the wimble was so hot that it was as white as the whitest moon you ever saw.

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  1. noun Any of numerous hand tools for boring holes.

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  1. Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, probably from Middle Dutch wimmel; see weip- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also Scots wimmle, wumil, wummle, wummel; from Middle English *wimbel, wymble, wymbyl, *wimmel; cf. Middle Dutch wimpel, a wimble, = Danish vimmel, an auger, = Old Swedish wimla (Molbech), an auger (not to be identified with Icelandic *veimil, which occurs but once, in comp. veimilty¯ta, applied to a crooked person, but said by Cleasby to mean ‘wimble-stick’ (ty¯ta, a pin?)); apparently connected with Middle Dutch weme, a wimble, wemelen, bore, this verb being apparently connected with wemelen, turn about, whirl, vibrate. The re lations of these forms are uncertain. The word is certainly not allied, as Skeat makes it, to Danish vindel-trappe = Swedish vindeltrappa = German wendeltreppe, a spiral staircase, German wendelbohrer, an auger, etc., words connected with the English verb wind: see wind. From the Middle Dutch form is derived Old French guimbelet, gimbelet, guibelet, later Middle English gymlet, later English gimlet, gimblet: see gimlet.
  2. from Middle English wymbelen, wymmelen (= Middle Dutch wemelen), bore, pierce with a wimble; from the noun.
  3. Perhaps a corruption of win now.
 

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