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 Holmes, Oliver Wendell

And the wimble was so hot that it was as white as the whitest moon you ever saw.

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by MacDonald, George

The kelpie gave a hideous roar, and turned away to run from the wimble.

From Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood by MacDonald, George

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

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