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Wimble   Listen
noun
Wimble  n.  An instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle. Specifically:
(a)
A gimlet. " It is but like the little wimble, to let in the greater auger."
(b)
A stonecutter's brace for boring holes in stone.
(c)
An auger used for boring in earth.






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"Wimble" Quotes from Famous Books



... the same answer. When with her joiner's wimble she has patiently bored the beam to a depth of nine inches, would she be able to cut out and place in position the thousand and one pieces which the Silky Leaf-cutter employs for her nest? Time would fail her, even as it would ...
— Bramble-bees and Others • J. Henri Fabre



Words linked to "Wimble" :   gimlet, screw auger



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