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

And the wimble was so hot that it was as white as the whitest moon you ever saw.

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by MacDonald, George

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

And whereabouts in that soft bundle was hidden the wimble which bored the hole?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various

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 Roberts, W. (William)