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gymmal

gymmal is the obsolete form of gimbal.

Meaning of gimbal

Noun

gimbal (plural gimbals)

  1. A device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped.
    • The lamp wriggled in its gimbals, the barometer swung in circles, the table altered its slant every moment […]1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in Typhoon

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Forms of gymmal

pluralgymmals

Questions about gymmal

What is gymmal the obsolete form of?
Gymmal is the obsolete form of gimbal.

Words near gymmal in the dictionary

  1. gymkhanas
  2. gymless
  3. gymlet
  4. gymlets
  5. gymlike
  6. gymmal
  7. gymmals
  8. gymmaxx
  9. gymmaxxed
  10. gymmaxxes
  11. gymmaxxing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gymmal (page history and authors); gimbal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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