gimlet

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To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet)
A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice

Yeah, a piece of advice — once you’re back in circulation, don’t keep topping off a lady’s vodka gimlet when she’s not looking.

A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes

The box was close on every side, with a little door for me to go in and out, and a few gimlet holes to let in air.

To pierce or make with a gimlet
If you say that someone has gimlet eyes, you mean that they look at people or things very carefully, and seem to notice every detail. `Have you read the whole book?' she asks, gimlet-eyed
hand tool for boring holes
a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice
A small tool for boring holes
It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle
To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet
{i} tool for making holes, drill; awl
gimlet-eyed
Having piercing eyes, sharp-sighted

'D--n her gooseberry wig,' said the corporal, when she was out of hearing, 'that gimlet-eyed jade -- mother adjutant, as we call her -- is a greater plague to the regiment than provost-marshal, .

A gimlet
wimble
gimlets
plural of gimlet
gimlet

    Hyphenation

    gim·let

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    Etymology

    () The name "gimlet" comes from the Old French guinbelet, guimbelet, later guibelet, probably a diminutive of the Anglo-French "wimble", a variation of "guimble", from the Middle Low German wiemel, compare the Scandinavian wammie, to bore or twist; the modern French is gibelet. Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd. Edition, (1989)
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