wimble
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But the point I refer to is this: the old instrument, the trepan, had a handle like a wimble, what we call a brace or bit-stock.
From Medical Essays, 1842-1882 by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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 Thomas Hardy
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 Sir Edward Belcher
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
"I'll come and wimble for you instead of him, if you will allow me," said she.
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
"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
