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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

wimble wimbling

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

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald

The kelpie gave a hideous roar, and turned away to run from the wimble.

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald

At his back he carried by a looped strap a rush basket, from which protruded at one end the crutch of a hay-knife, a wimble for hay-bonds being also visible in the aperture.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

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 Sir Edward Belcher

I was, however, meditating a strict search for the wimble carved on the knight's tomb.

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald

"Tending thrashing-machine and wimbling haybonds, and saying "Hoosh!" to the cocks and hens when they go upon your seeds and planting Early Flourballs and Thompson's Wonderfuls with a dibble."

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

"Tending thrashing-machine and wimbling haybonds, and saying 'Hoosh!' to the cocks and hens when they go upon your seeds, and planting Early Flourballs and Thompson's Wonderfuls with a dibble."

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Elizabeth had latterly been accustomed of an afternoon to present a cup of cider or ale and bread-and-cheese to Nance Mockridge, who worked in the yard wimbling hay-bonds.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

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