wimble

Example Sentences

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He made us a small double-headed maul, hammers, chisels, and a sort of gimblets or wimbles, which performed very well.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Kerr, Robert

Suddenly a poignant pain seized him; he felt as though wimbles were drilling into his temples.

From Against the Grain by Huysmans, J.-K. (Joris-Karl)

We saw there a great number of trees which bore mattocks, pickaxes, crows, weeding-hooks, scythes, sickles, spades, trowels, hatchets, hedging-bills, saws, adzes, bills, axes, shears, pincers, bolts, piercers, augers, and wimbles.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony