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Definition of "wimble" [wim•ble]

  • Any of numerous hand tools for boring holes. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "wimble" in a sentence
  • "[Illustration] "A wimble is a long tool, like a great gimlet, with a cross handle, with which you turn it like a screw."
  • "((Oxford English Dictionary) [21.13] A wimble is a auger or gimlet; apparently one can be large enough to bore holes in ground."
  • "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."