wimble
/ˈwɪm.bəl/
wimble noun: any of various hand tools for boring holes.
Noun
wimble (plural wimbles)
- Any of various hand tools for boring holes.
Verb
wimble (third-person singular simple present wimbles, present participle wimbling, simple past and past participle 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.”1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 10, in Far from the Madding Crowd
- “What have you been doing?”
- To bore or pierce, as with a wimble.
- […] 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 hole thro’ the said coffin that was largest […]1692, Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, London: Lackington et al., 1820, Volume 4, p. 39
- My body heavier & heavier, my head a stone, & within an insistent voice wimbling away […]2001, Richard Flanagan, “The Freshwater Crayfish”, in Gould’s Book of Fish, New York: Grove, IV, p. 343
Adjective
wimble (comparative more wimble, superlative most wimble)
- active; nimble
- He was so wimble, and so wight,
From bough to bough he lepped light,1579, Edmund Spenser, “March, Aegloga Tertia”, in The Shepheardes Calender, London: Hugh Singleton, page 9b - And casting backe mine eye, I spyde
a pretie wymble lad,
Who saluing of his mate, dyd aske
what newes were to be had.1579, Edward Hake, Newes out of Powles Churchyarde, London: John Charlewood and Richard Jhones, “The first Satyr,”
- He was so wimble, and so wight,
Proper noun capitalized: Wimble
Wimble (plural Wimbles)
- A surname.
wimble meaning in Tamil
wimble in Tamil
- துருவல், தொள்ளி
Forms of wimble
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | wimbles |
| alternative form | whimble |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | wimbles |
| present participle | wimbling |
| past participle | wimbled |
| past | wimbled |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more wimble |
| superlative | most wimble |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Wimbles |
Origin of wimble
From Middle English wymble, wymbel. Compare Middle Dutch wimmel, Middle Low German wimel, wemel.
From Middle English wimblen, from the noun (above). Compare Middle Low German wemelen.
Related to whim.
Words that rhyme with wimble
Questions about wimble
- What does wimble mean?
- Wimble means any of various hand tools for boring holes.
- What is wimble in Tamil?
- Wimble in Tamil is துருவல், தொள்ளி. See Wimble meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is wimble?
- Wimble can be a noun, a verb, an adjective or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce wimble?
- Wimble is pronounced /ˈwɪm.bəl/.
- What is the plural of wimble?
- The plural of wimble is wimbles.
Words near wimble in the dictionary
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