wimble

American  

[wim-buhl] / ˈwɪm bəl /

noun

1. a device used especially in mining for extracting the rubbish from a bored hole.

2. a marbleworker's brace for drilling.

3. any of various other instruments for boring.

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verb (used with object)

wimbled, wimbling

1. to bore or perforate with or as if with a wimble.

wimble British  

/ ˈwɪmbəl /

noun

1. any of a number of hand tools, such as a brace and bit or a gimlet, used for boring holes

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verb

1. to bore (a hole) with or as if with a wimble

Etymology

Origin of wimble

1250–1300; Middle English < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German wimmel auger; see gimlet

Example Sentences

A wimble, or instrument for boring holes for bolts, tree-nails, and other purposes.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

A wimble is a long tool, like a great gimlet, with a cross handle, with which you turn it like a screw.

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by MacDonald, George

"I'll come and wimble for you instead of him, if you will allow me," said she.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

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

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by MacDonald, George

And whereabouts in that soft bundle was hidden the wimble which bored the hole?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various