Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of numerous hand tools for boring holes.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bore or perforate with or as with a wimble.
- To winnow.
- noun A gimlet.
- noun In mining, an instrument by which the rub bish is extracted from a bore-hole: a kind of shell-auger. Some varieties of wimble, suit able for boring into soft clay, are called
wim ble-scoops . - noun A marble-workers' brace for drilling holes in marble.
- Active; nimble.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A gimlet.
- noun A stonecutter's brace for boring holes in stone.
- noun An auger used for boring in earth.
- transitive verb To bore or pierce, as with a wimble.
- adjective obsolete Active; nimble.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of various
hand tools forboring holes . - verb transitive To
truss hay with a wimble. - adjective obsolete
active ;nimble
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hand tool for boring holes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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[Illustration] "A wimble is a long tool, like a great gimlet, with a cross handle, with which you turn it like a screw.
Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood George MacDonald 1864
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((Oxford English Dictionary) [21.13] A wimble is a auger or gimlet; apparently one can be large enough to bore holes in ground.
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To him the artificers who followed him owed the invention of the axe, the wedge, the wimble, and the carpenter's level, and his restless mind was ever busy with new inventions.
A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang
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A wimble of the same timber was then applied, the end of which they fitted to the hole.
Chapter 62. The Fire-Festivals of Europe. § 4. The Beltane Fires 1922
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In some places three times three persons, in others three times nine, were required for turning round by turns the axle-tree or wimble.
Chapter 62. The Fire-Festivals of Europe. § 4. The Beltane Fires 1922
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A wimble of the same timber was then applied, the end of which they fitted to the hole.
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In some places three times three persons, in others three times nine, were required for turning round by turns the axle-tree or wimble.
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It may be mentioned that on some of the bindings of his quarto volumes the broken pitcher is transversed by the wimble or
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In some places three times three persons, in others three times nine, were required for turning round by turns the axle-tree or wimble.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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A wimble of the same timber was then applied, the end of which they fitted to the hole.
The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897
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