An instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle. Specifically:
A gimlet. " It is but like the little wimble, to let in the greater auger." Selden.
A stonecutter's brace for boring holes in stone.
An auger used for boring in earth.
To bore or pierce, as with a wimble. "A foot soldier . . . wimbled also a hole through said coffin." Wood.
Active; nimble.[Obs.] Spenser.
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