Definition of "wimbles" [wimbles]

• Plural form of wimble. (noun)

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• "Thenceforward the full sacks, looped with the shining chain, went scurrying up and down under the cat-head, hairy arms were thrust out from the different door-ways, and the grain was hauled in; trusses of hay were tossed anew in and out of the barns, and the wimbles creaked; while the scales and steel-yards began to be busy where guess-work had formerly been the rule."
• "Alice, who is eleven, and goes to the Lincoln School, and therefore knows everything, said, "Yes, and the Damascus people brought Damascus wimbles.""
• "He made us a small double-headed maul, hammers, chisels, and a sort of gimblets or wimbles, which performed very well."