wimble
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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
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
I was, however, meditating a strict search for the wimble carved on the knight's tomb.
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
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 George MacDonald
"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
