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 Morris, William

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 Belcher, Edward, Sir

D�dalus and his nephew Talus invent the saw, the turning-lath, the wimble, the chip-ax, and other instruments of Carpenters and Joyners, and thereby give a beginning to those Arts in Europe.

From The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great by Newton, Isaac, Sir

At his back he carried by a looped strap a rush basket, from which protruded at one end the crutch of a hay-knife, a wimble for hay-bonds being also visible in the aperture.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas

I was, however, meditating a strict search for the wimble carved on the knight's tomb.

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by MacDonald, George