wimble

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

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

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.

From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Grant, Robert

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 Lumholtz, Carl

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

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

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 Hardy, Thomas

"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 Hardy, Thomas

"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 Hardy, Thomas