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- verb Present participle of
gimblet .
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chained_bear commented on the word gimbleting
"... a term applied to the anchor, to denote the action of turning it round by the stock, so that the motion of the stock appears similar to that of the handle of a gimblet, when it is employed to turn the wire."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 166
October 14, 2008