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Elizabeth had latterly been accustomed of an afternoon to present a cup of cider or ale and bread-and-cheese to Nance Mockridge, who worked in the yard wimbling hay-bonds.

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

Elizabeth had latterly been accustomed of an afternoon to present a cup of cider or ale and bread-and-cheese to Nance Mockridge, who worked in the yard wimbling hay-bonds.

The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

"Tending thrashing-machine and wimbling haybonds, and saying" Hoosh! "to the cocks and hens when they go upon your seeds and planting Early Flourballs and Thompson's Wonderfuls with a dibble."

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874

Let me continue with my wimblings because yours is clearly articulated argument, isn’t it?, not a rant or a widget or wimbling even?

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And truly there is a wondrous charm in being all alone in the shadowy woods -- shut out as it were from the bright sunlight above, which only trickles down in little golden showers through the thick green leaves over one's head -- and where the stillness is so profound, you distinctly hear even the faintest wimbling of the wriggling wood-worm in the very heart of the old log on which you sit down to rest.

Social relations in our Southern States, 1860

“Tending thrashing-machine and wimbling haybonds, and saying ‘Hoosh!’ to the cocks and hens when they go upon your seeds and planting Early Flourballs and Thompson’s

Far from the Madding Crowd 1874