Crossword-Solution: WIMBLE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wimble | n. | An instrument for boring holes, turned by a handle. |
| Wimble | n. | A gimlet. |
| Wimble | n. | A stonecutter's brace for boring holes in stone. |
| Wimble | n. | An auger used for boring in earth. |
| Wimble | v. t. | To bore or pierce, as with a wimble. |
| Wimble | a. | Active; nimble. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “WIMBLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| any of a number of hand tools used for boring holes | 1 answer |
| BORING implement | 8 answers |
| Gimlet | 12 answers |
| BORING tool | 13 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WIMBLE (5)
Richard, on the contrary, who was ten years younger, beheld himself born to the fortune of a second brother, and anticipated neither dignity nor entertainment in sustaining the character of Will Wimble.
Know then that in these dominions I am monarch, and here rule with undivided empire under the title of ‘King Pest the First.’ “This apartment, which you no doubt profanely suppose to be the shop of Will Wimble the undertaker—a man whom we know not, and whose plebeian appellation has never before this night thwarted our royal ears—this apartment, I say, is the Dais-Chamber of our Palace, devoted to the councils of our kingdom, and to other sacred and lofty purposes.
Sir Roger, his chaplain and his butler, Will Wimble and Will Honeycomb, the Vision of Mirza, the Journal of the Retired Citizen, the Everlasting Club, the Dunmow Flitch, the Loves of Hilpah and Shalum, the Visit to the Exchange, and the Visit to the Abbey, are known to everybody.
The Spectator pays a visit in the summer to Coverley Hall, is charmed with the old house, the old butler, and the old chaplain, eats a jack caught by Will Wimble, rides to the assizes, and hears a point of law discussed by Tom Touchy.
But the point I refer to is this: the old instrument, the trepan, had a handle like a wimble, what we call a brace or bit-stock.
Quotes with WIMBLE (1)
This apartment, which you no doubt profanely suppose to be the shop of Will Wimble the undertaker --a man whom we know not, and whose plebeian appellation has never before this night thwarted our royal ears --this apartment, I say, is the Dais-Chamber of our Palace, devoted to the councils of our kingdom, and to other sacred and lofty purposes.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1992).