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
"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
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
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 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
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
"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
