wimble

A wimble, or instrument for boring holes for bolts, tree-nails, and other purposes.

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.

All at once he heard a singular noise, and very soon after the worm of a wimble shot up from the planked floor on which he was standing.

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.

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