gimlet

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A small hand tool having a spiraled shank, a screw tip, and a cross handle and used for boring holes.
• noun A cocktail made with vodka or gin, sweetened lime juice, and sometimes effervescent water and garnished with a slice of lime.
• transitive verb To make a hole in (something) with a gimlet.
• adjective Having a penetrating or piercing quality.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To use or apply a gimlet upon; form a hole in by using a gimlet; turn round, as one does a gimlet.
• noun A small instrument with a pointed screw at the end, for boring holes in wood by turning it with one hand.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.
• noun [Colloq.] a squint-eye.
• transitive verb To pierce or make with a gimlet.
• transitive verb (Naut.) To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes.
• noun A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice.
• verb To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice
• noun hand tool for boring holes