Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A finger ring made of two or more interlocked rings.
- noun Any of various linkages allowing one part to rotate within another rotating part, used especially in clockworks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
gimbal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.
- noun obsolete A quaint piece of machinery; a gimmer.
- adjective Made or consisting of interlocked rings or links.
- adjective See Gimbal joint, under
Gimbal .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of
interlocked rings . - noun obsolete A
quaint piece ofmachinery ; agimmer .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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My fingers sought the gimmal ring pinned to the inside of my bodice.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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The ring was in gimmal, one part set with a ruby and the other with a diamond.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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My fingers sought the gimmal ring pinned to the inside of my bodice.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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My fingers sought the gimmal ring pinned to the inside of my bodice.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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My fingers sought the gimmal ring pinned to the inside of my bodice.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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The ring was in gimmal, one part set with a ruby and the other with a diamond.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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The ring was in gimmal, one part set with a ruby and the other with a diamond.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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The ring was in gimmal, one part set with a ruby and the other with a diamond.
Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010
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She went to the Monte de Piété with the last of her little treasures, that one dear trinket to which she had clung even when hunger was at the door -- the gimmal or alliance ring that Gustave had placed upon her finger before God's altar -- the double symbolic circlet which bore on one side her name, on the other her husband's.
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Roger de Cartright, an English knight of the Order, was about to extort from the elderly Israelite,) with a hundred crowns and a gimmal ring, which were all the property he possessed.
Burlesques 2006
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