wimble

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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 MacDonald, George

So Ali went forth, and there was silence of words for a while in the Hall; but there arose the sound of the wood-wrights busy with the wimble and the hammer about the bier. 

From The House of the Wolfings by Morris, William

D�dalus and his nephew Talus invent the saw, the turning-lath, the wimble, the chip-ax, and other instruments of Carpenters and Joyners, and thereby give a beginning to those Arts in Europe.

From The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great by Newton, Isaac, Sir

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

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