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  • verb Present participle of gimblet.

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  • "... 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