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wimble - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
noun
from The Century Dictionary.
noun noun 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
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
noun noun noun adjective obsolete Active; nimble.transitive verb
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
noun hand tools for boring 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, probably from Middle Dutch wimmel ; see weip- in Indo-European roots.]
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Examples
[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
((Oxford English Dictionary) [21.13] A wimble is a auger or gimlet; apparently one can be large enough to bore holes in ground.
Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733] 1733
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
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
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
A wimble of the same timber was then applied, the end of which they fitted to the hole.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922
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: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922
It may be mentioned that on some of the bindings of his quarto volumes the broken pitcher is transversed by the wimble or
Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography 1901
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
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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