wimble
/ˈwɪm.bəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.37 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any of various hand tools for boring holes.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "“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.”"
- "1692, Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, London: Lackington et al., 1820, Volume 4, p. 39, […] 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 […]"
- "My body heavier & heavier, my head a stone, & within an insistent voice wimbling away […]"
- "He was so wimble, and so wight, From bough to bough he lepped light,"
- "1579, Edward Hake, Newes out of Powles Churchyarde, London: John Charlewood and Richard Jhones, “The first Satyr,” And casting backe mine eye, I spyde a pretie wymble lad, Who saluing of his mate, dyd aske what newes were to be had."
- "Be not affright, sweete Prince; appease thy feare, Buckle thy spirits up, put all thy wits In wimble action, or thou art surpriz’d."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: wymble, wimblen
Usage
Inflected Forms
wimbles (plural)
whimble (alternative)
wimbles (present, singular)
wimbling (participle, present)
wimbled (participle, past)
wimbled (past)
more wimble (comparative)
most wimble (superlative)