Crossword-Solution: GIMPS 5 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The mantel-shelf, adorned with a little wax Jesus under a shade of squares of glass held together with blue paper, was piled with wools, bobbins, and tools used in the making of gimps and trimmings.

With her left hand she raises slightly her skirts, revealing the embroidered gimps of a white taffeta underskirt, flashing in the moonlight.

And if they fooled me, who am often called very wise, what would you think of their foolin' a fish, who hain't got any bump of wisdom on their heads? And then there wuz trollin' spoons of all kinds and shapes, in all kinds of metal, and trollin' squids--I'd never hearn of that name before--squid! but they had 'em of all kinds; and tackle boxes, and floats, and landin' nets, and gaff hooks; there is sunthin' else I never hearn on--gaff hooks! and snells, and gimps, and spinners.

Woe, if by the same channel ever an offense cometh!" Perhaps Faith was nearly the only person in church, to-day, who did not notice that there were strangers in the pew behind the Gimps.

Both the double and single chain are generally used in macramé gimps and borders as a means of conducting threads of different colours, from one part of a pattern to another, which could be done in no other way; also, as a continuation to the Chinese knot, fig.