1) Auger 2) Borer 3) Perforator 4) Tool 5) Wimble
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1) Boring tool 2) Cocktail 3) Cocktail featuring lime juice 4) Cocktail with gin 5) Cocktail with lime juice 6) French word used in English 7) Gin and lime juice cocktail 8) Gin or vodka drink 9) Hand tool for boring holes 10) Hole-boring tool 11) Lime juice cocktail 12) Lime-flavored cocktail 13) Lime-laced libation
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- gin or vodka and lime juice
- hand tool for boring holes
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[cocktail] The gimlet is a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice. A 1928 description of the drink was: `gin, a spot of lime, and soda.` The description in the 1953 Raymond Chandler novel The Long Goodbye stated that `a real gimlet is half gin and half Rose`s lime juice and nothing else`. For the vodka gimlet, replace gin with vodka. ...
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[rocket] Gimlet was an unguided air-to-air and air-to-surface rocket developed by the United States Navy during the early 1950s. Although it proved successful in testing and was ordered into large-scale production, the arrival of the guided missile as a practical and reliable weapon resulted in the cancellation of the Gimlet rocket in 1957....
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[tool] A gimlet is a hand tool for drilling small holes, mainly in wood, without splitting. It was defined in Joseph Gwilt`s Architecture (1859) as `a piece of steel of a semi-cylindrical form, hollow on one side, having a cross handle at one end and a worm or screw at the other`. A gimlet is always a small tool. A similar tool of larger si...
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• (n.) A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle. • (v. t.) To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet. • (v. t.) To pierce or make with a gimlet.
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(from the article `gin`) ...are usually served unmixed or with water. The drier types, sometimes called London dry, may be served unmixed or may be combined with other ...
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(from the article `hand tool`) ...hole may be drilled or bored; awls, gimlets, and augers also produce holes. An awl is the simplest hole maker, for, like a needle, it simply ...
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An alcoholic drink made with gin and Rose's Lime Juice.
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Gim'let noun [ Also written and pronounced
gimbled ] [ Old French
guimbelet ,
guibelet , French
gibelet , probably from OD.
wimpel ,
weme , a bore,
wemelen to bore, to wimble. See
Wimble ,
noun ] A small tool for boring...
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Gim'let transitive verb [
imperfect & past participle Gimleted ;
present participle & verbal noun Gimleting .]
1. To pierce or make with a gimlet.
2. (Nautical) To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion...
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A gimlet is a small tool with a pointed screw at the end, used for boring holes in wood or other substances by turning. A larger instrument of this nature is termed an auger.
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A gimlet is a small hand tool for boring holes. It comprises a pointed screw shaft affixed to a perpendicular handle.
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n] - a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice
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A gimlet, that is, a boring tool. (Also gimblet).
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Considered a classic cocktail featuring gin and lime juice, the origins of the Gimlet go back to the middle of the 1800s after research by Scottish Surgeon Dr James Lind of Leith, Edinburgh, discovered that citrus juice could be used to help prevent scurvy. Scurvy, a lack of vitamin C, was a blight on sailors in the Royal Navy and it was thanks to ...
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NATO designation for soviet surface-to-air missile system Igla-1 [SU]
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noun a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice
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A cocktail composed of sugar syrup, lime juice, vodka (or gin) and sometimes soda water.
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a small tool for boring holes, consisting of a shaft with a pointed screw at one end and a handle perpendicular to the shaft at the other. · a cocktail made with gin or vodka, sweetened lime juice, and sometimes soda water.
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