gimlet
noun
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.
gimleted
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past participleof gimlet.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof gimlet.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
gimletnouna 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.
Example Sentences
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You know how unimportant your cuts are in the fall when you know that you can skip classes ten times that year without getting called up on the green carpet and gimleted by the Faculty.
From At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch
The chill eyes of Goodheart gimleted into those of his assistant.
From A Man Four-Square by William MacLeod Raine
The lady gimleted us again one by one with her blue eyes.
From New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune by E. (Edith) Nesbit
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.
From The Dozen from Lakerim by Rupert Hughes
Why are we ever gimleted By empire's irony?
From Citadel by H. R. van Dongen
