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Meanings of gimlet in English
Synonyms
Examples for "auger"
Examples for "auger"
1
With an auger bore a hole in each leg about 3 in.
2
Junior had the auger with which to bore holes in the trees.
3
But, when Wylie withdrew his auger, the water had squirted in furiously.
4
Then he gave Juan an auger and told him to start drilling.
5
This done and a rude supper eaten, he took up his auger.
1
The kelpie gave a hideous roar, and turned away to run from the wimble.
2
And whereabouts in that soft bundle was hidden the wimble which bored the hole?
3
I was, however, meditating a strict search for the wimble carved on the knight's tomb.
4
Allister was staring into the fire, fancying he saw the whorls of the wimble heating in it.
5
And the wimble was so hot that it was as white as the whitest moon you ever saw.
Usage of gimlet in English
1
And truly it did surprise me, for no wine followed the gimlet.
2
But he felt the judge's gimlet eyes boring holes in his back.
3
Under my gimlet gaze Chrysosto edged his skinny pins behind a table.
4
Pelton quailed under that gaze which bored into him like a gimlet.
5
His heavy brows depressed, and his deep-set eyes narrowed to gimlet holes.
6
They got their drinks, and Jason slid his gimlet over to her.
7
Murphy gave me a gimlet glance, and turned back to the guard.
8
I looked up at Caine with a gimlet eye, my teeth bared.
9
She evidently had in mind the typical old maid with gimlet ringlets!
10
The theatre manager whispers into his walkie-talkie, gimlet eyes scanning the foyer.
11
What folly to be hankering after our neighbor's chalk line and gimlet!
12
Behold its elegant, threaded body, tapering to a sharp gimlet point.
13
Another pause ensued during which the gimlet eyes of the professor were busy.
14
With the gimlet holes were made a couple of feet above the water.
15
Aria asked for pinot noir-shethought it seemed sophisticated-andJason ordered a gimlet.
16
She folds her arms and watches the woman's waddling progress, gimlet-eyed.
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Gimlet through the time
Gimlet across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common