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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The door opened cautiously a few inches and a pair of close-set eyes in a wrinkled face gimleted Clay.
From The Big-Town Round-Up 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
It lay, too, in the glitter of the cold eyes that gimleted mine sharply.
From The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure by William MacLeod Raine
The chill eyes of Goodheart gimleted into those of his assistant.
From A Man Four-Square by William MacLeod Raine
Why are we ever gimleted By empire's irony?
From Citadel by H. R. van Dongen
