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

So Ali went forth, and there was silence of words for a while in the Hall; but there arose the sound of the wood-wrights busy with the wimble and the hammer about the bier. 

From The House of the Wolfings by William Morris

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

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald

All at once he heard a singular noise, and very soon after the worm of a wimble shot up from the planked floor on which he was standing.

From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Robert Grant

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

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

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

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald

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

"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

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