gimlet
a small tool for boring holes, consisting of a shaft with a pointed screw at one end and a handle perpendicular to the shaft at the other.
a cocktail made with gin or vodka, sweetened lime juice, and sometimes soda water.
to pierce with or as if with a gimlet.
Also gim·blet [gim-blit]. /ˈgɪm blɪt/. Nautical. to rotate (a suspended anchor) to a desired position.
able to penetrate or bore through.
Origin of gimlet
1Other words from gimlet
- gim·let·y, adjective
Words Nearby gimlet
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How to use gimlet in a sentence
Murdoch was known to personally track all of the editorial budgets with a gimlet eye.
Murdoch on the Rocks: How a Lone Reporter Revealed the Mogul's Tabloid Terror Machine | Clive Irving | August 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThere are reasons, in other words, for hard-shell conservatives to give him the gimlet eye.
Rand Paul Woos the Base With Hot Monica Lewinsky Talk | Michael Tomasky | February 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat the baron recoils from in horror, others discern with a gimlet eye to the main social chance.
However, with the gimlet eyes of a new blogger, I detect ominous portents of change.
Gorenflot went off quite happy, and then Chicot made, with a gimlet, a hole in the partition at about the height of his eye.
Chicot the Jester | Alexandre Dumas, Pere
To broach a pipe, pierce it with an auger or gimlet, four fingers- breadth over the lower rim, so that the dregs may not rise.
Early English Meals and Manners | VariousHe stood, shivering, with gimlet flames in his eyes, his fingers twitching restlessly.
The Pioneers | Katharine Susannah PrichardTom had broken his gimlet and three extra ones which fortunately some one had brought.
Tom Slade with the Colors | Percy K. FitzhughI will not have thee strike thy gimlet into these weak vessels; prick thine enemies, Ralph.
British Dictionary definitions for gimlet
/ (ˈɡɪmlɪt) /
a small hand tool consisting of a pointed spiral tip attached at right angles to a handle, used for boring small holes in wood
US a cocktail consisting of half gin or vodka and half lime juice
a eucalyptus of W Australia having a twisted bole
(tr) to make holes in (wood) using a gimlet
penetrating; piercing (esp in the phrase gimlet-eyed)
Origin of gimlet
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