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 of machinery; a gimmer.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Alteration of obsolete gemel, from Middle English, sing. of gemelles, twins, from Old French, pl. of jumel, twin, from Latin gemellus, diminutive of geminus, twin.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

Probably the same word as gemel. Compare gimbal.

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Examples

  • My fingers sought the gimmal ring pinned to the inside of my bodice.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • 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

  • My fingers sought the gimmal ring pinned to the inside of my bodice.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • My fingers sought the gimmal ring pinned to the inside of my bodice.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • My fingers sought the gimmal ring pinned to the inside of my bodice.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Charlotte's Inheritance 1875

  • 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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