wimble
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So Ali went forth, and there was silence of words for a while in the Hall; but there arose the sound of the wood-wrights busy with the wimble and the hammer about the bier.
From The House of the Wolfings by William Morris
Allister was staring into the fire, fancying he saw the whorls of the wimble heating in it.
From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald
I was, however, meditating a strict search for the wimble carved on the knight's tomb.
From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald
It may be mentioned that on some of the bindings of his quarto volumes the broken pitcher is transversed by the wimble or toret—an obvious pun on his name.
From Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography by W. (William) Roberts
A wimble, or instrument for boring holes for bolts, tree-nails, and other purposes.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
"Tending thrashing-machine and wimbling haybonds, and saying "Hoosh!" to the cocks and hens when they go upon your seeds and planting Early Flourballs and Thompson's Wonderfuls with a dibble."
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
"Tending thrashing-machine and wimbling haybonds, and saying 'Hoosh!' to the cocks and hens when they go upon your seeds, and planting Early Flourballs and Thompson's Wonderfuls with a dibble."
From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Elizabeth had latterly been accustomed of an afternoon to present a cup of cider or ale and bread-and-cheese to Nance Mockridge, who worked in the yard wimbling hay-bonds.
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
