wimble

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

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald

Allister was staring into the fire, fancying he saw the whorls of the wimble heating in it.

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by George MacDonald

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 Carl Lumholtz

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

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

"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

"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