| 单词 | wimble |
| 例句 | A wimble, or instrument for boring holes for bolts, tree-nails, and other purposes. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. It may be mentioned that on some of the bindings of his quarto volumes the broken pitcher is transversed by the wimble or toret—an obvious pun on his name. Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography All at once he heard a singular noise, and very soon after the worm of a wimble shot up from the planked floor on which he was standing. Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Possibly it was done with a kind of flint wimble with three teeth, much like the instrument used to-day in trepanning by the Berbers in L’Aurés, who cure even headaches by this method. Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Suddenly a poignant pain seized him; he felt as though wimbles were drilling into his temples. Against the Grain At his back he carried by a looped strap a rush basket, from which protruded at one end the crutch of a hay-knife, a wimble for hay-bonds being also visible in the aperture. The Mayor of Casterbridge A wimble is a long tool, like a great gimlet, with a cross handle, with which you turn it like a screw. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood And whereabouts in that soft bundle was hidden the wimble which bored the hole? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 So Ali went forth, and there was silence of words for a while in the Hall; but there arose the sound of the wood-wrights busy with the wimble and the hammer about the bier. The House of the Wolfings 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. Medical Essays, 1842-1882 "I'll come and wimble for you instead of him, if you will allow me," said she. The Mayor of Casterbridge And the wimble was so hot that it was as white as the whitest moon you ever saw. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood Allister was staring into the fire, fancying he saw the whorls of the wimble heating in it. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood The kelpie gave a hideous roar, and turned away to run from the wimble. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood I was, however, meditating a strict search for the wimble carved on the knight's tomb. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood |
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