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Gimlet
Definitions
- 1 A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes.
"The box was close on every side, with a little door for me to go in and out, and a few gimlet holes to let in air."
- 2 hand tool for boring holes wordnet
- 3 A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice.
"We sat in a corner of the bar at Victor's and drank gimlets. “They don't know how to make them here,” he said. “What they call a gimlet is just some lime or lemon juice and gin with a dash of sugar and bitters. A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's Lime Juice and nothing else. It beats martinis hollow.”"
- 4 a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice wordnet
- 1 To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet).
"Then there was an awful silence. The lady gimleted us again one by one with her blue eyes."
- 2 To turn round (an anchor) as if turning a gimlet. transitive
Etymology
From Middle English gimlet etc., from Old French guinbelet, guimbelet, guibelet, probably a diminutive of the Anglo-Norman wimble, a variation of guimble (“drill”), from the Middle Low German wiemel; continued in New French as gibelet. Cocktail either named after the tool, in reference to its penetrating effects, or British Navy surgeon Thomas Gimlette (1857–1943).
From Middle English gimlet etc., from Old French guinbelet, guimbelet, guibelet, probably a diminutive of the Anglo-Norman wimble, a variation of guimble (“drill”), from the Middle Low German wiemel; continued in New French as gibelet. Cocktail either named after the tool, in reference to its penetrating effects, or British Navy surgeon Thomas Gimlette (1857–1943).
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