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Gimlet   /gˈɪmlˌɛt/   Listen
noun
Gimlet  n.  (Also written and pronounced gimbled)  A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.
Gimlet eye, a squint-eye. (Colloq.)


verb
Gimlet  v. t.  (past & past part. gimleted; pres. part. gimleting)  
1.
To pierce or make with a gimlet.
2.
(Naut.) To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.





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"Gimlet" Quotes from Famous Books



... and Isobel discussed various matters pertaining to the village Welfare Club, while Roger preserved an impenetrable silence, and though Nan made a valiant pretence at eating, lest Lady Gertrude's gimlet eyes should observe her lack of appetite and her thin, disdainful voice comment on the fact, she felt all the time as though the next mouthful must inevitably ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler
... Wonderson swarmed up the Virginia-creeper until he reached the closely-shuttered window. Here he clung precariously with one hand while with the other he produced a gimlet and noiselessly bored two holes in the green shutters. Was he too late? The question shot through his brain. With a quick intake of breath he applied an eye to one hole and an ear to the other ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 16, 1914 • Various
... the picture of which this is the original. Sir William Herschel's great telescope! It was just about as big, as it stood there by the roadside, as it was in the picture, not much different any way. Why should it be? The pupil of your eye is only a gimlet-hole, not so very much bigger than the eye of a sail-needle, and a camel has to go through it before you can see him. You look into a stereoscope and think you see a miniature of a building or a mountain; you don't, you 're made a fool of by ...
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... I thanked him for his kindness, that I did not appear perfectly satisfied, he glanced at me scrutinisingly. His eye was like a gimlet, and seemed to penetrate my inmost thoughts; for, I declare, he guessed the feeling that was uppermost ...
— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson
... Lord Raygan, as Miss Child obeyed. He might have meant the wearer or the dress. Peter Rolls flashed a gimlet glance his way to see which. He felt uncomfortably responsible for the manners of the visitors and the feelings of the visited. But the face of Rags was grave, and no offence could be taken. Peter Rolls withdrew the glance, though not before Winifred ...
— Winnie Childs - The Shop Girl • C. N. Williamson


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