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prettygoodwordwimble (WIM-bul) - n., any of various hand tools (such as a gimlet or a brace-and-bit) for boring holes; a miner's device for extracting rubbish from a bored hole. v. to bore (a hole) with, or as with, a wimble.
I can't say I've ever heard it used, but I'm neither a woodworker nor hang around many of them (other than, yanno, Dad). Adopted in the 13th century from (probably) Middle Dutch wimmel, auger, from Middle Low German. Gimlet is also from the same root, only borrowed through Old French > Anglo-Norman.
---L.
I can't say I've ever heard it used, but I'm neither a woodworker nor hang around many of them (other than, yanno, Dad). Adopted in the 13th century from (probably) Middle Dutch wimmel, auger, from Middle Low German. Gimlet is also from the same root, only borrowed through Old French > Anglo-Norman.
---L.
