wimble
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wimble¹
- /ˈwɪm.bəl/
- [ˈwɪmbl̩]
Rhymes with -ɪmbəl
Where it comes from
From Middle English wymble, wymbel. Compare Middle Dutch wimmel, Middle Low German wimel, wemel.
noun wimbles · whimble
- Any of various hand tools for boring holes.
wimble²
- /ˈwɪm.bəl/
- [ˈwɪmbl̩]
Rhymes with -ɪmbəl
Where it comes from
From Middle English wimblen, from the noun (above). Compare Middle Low German wemelen.
verb wimbles · wimbling · wimbled
- To truss (hay) with a wimble. “What have you been doing?” “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.”
- To bore or pierce, as with a wimble. 1692, Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, London: Lackington et al., 1820, Volume 4, p. 39, […] a foot soldier had hid himself […] and being greedy of prey, crept into the vault, and cut so much of the velvet pall that covered the great body, as he judged would hardly be missed, and wimbled also a hol
wimble³
- /ˈwɪm.bəl/
- [ˈwɪmbl̩]
Rhymes with -ɪmbəl
Where it comes from
Related to whim.
adjective more wimble · most wimble
- active; nimble He was so wimble, and so wight, From bough to bough he lepped light,
Wimble⁴
Where it comes from
Perhaps a variant of Wimbley or Wimple or Winibald.
proper noun Wimbles
- A surname.
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