wimble

Example Sentences

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

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by MacDonald, George

Possibly it was done with a kind of flint wimble with three teeth, much like the instrument used to-day in trepanning by the Berbers in L’Aurés, who cure even headaches by this method.

From Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan by Lumholtz, Carl

A wimble is a long tool, like a great gimlet, with a cross handle, with which you turn it like a screw.

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by MacDonald, George

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

"I'll come and wimble for you instead of him, if you will allow me," said she.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas