wimble
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- verb To bore or perforate with or as with a wimble.
- verb To winnow.
- noun A gimlet.
- noun In mining, an instrument by which the rubbish is extracted from a bore-hole: a kind of shell-auger. Some varieties of wimble, suitable for boring into soft clay, are called wimble-scoops.
- noun A marble-workers' brace for drilling holes in marble.
- adjective Active; nimble.
Examples
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A wimble is a long tool, like a great gimlet, with a cross handle, with which you turn it like a screw.
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A wimble is a auger or gimlet; apparently one can be large enough to bore holes in ground.
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To him the artificers who followed him owed the invention of the axe, the wedge, the wimble, and the carpenter's level, and his restless mind was ever busy with new inventions.
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During the day he had bought a new tool-basket, cleaned up his old hay-knife and wimble, set himself up in fresh leggings, kneenaps and corduroys, and in other ways gone back to the working clothes of his young manhood, discarding for ever the shabby-genteel suit of cloth and rusty silk hat that since his decline had characterized him in the Casterbridge street as a man who had seen better days.
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In the background, mellowed by tawny shade, were the three women, Maryann Money, and Temperance and Soberness Miller, gathering up the fleeces and twisting ropes of wool with a wimble for tying them round.
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And I learned that the "Sheffield wimble" was one of those things whose name you never heard before, which people sell you in the Thames Tunnel, where a hoof-cleaner, a gimlet, a screwdriver, and a corkscrew fold into one handle.
If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact
Note
The word 'wimble' is related to 'gimlet'.
