wimble
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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 George MacDonald
And the wimble was so hot that it was as white as the whitest moon you ever saw.
From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald
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 George MacDonald
The kelpie gave a hideous roar, and turned away to run from the wimble.
From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald
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
"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
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