"I'll come and wimble for you instead of him, if you will allow me," said she.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

A wimble of the same timber was then applied, the end of which they fitted to the hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference

Miller, gathering up the fleeces and twisting ropes of wool with a wimble for tying them round.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference

Hall; but there arose the sound of the wood-wrights busy with the wimble and the hammer about the bier.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of the Wolfings] Reference

It may be mentioned that on some of the bindings of his quarto volumes the broken pitcher is transversed by the wimble or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography] Reference

And I learned that the "Sheffield wimble" was one of those things whose name you never heard before, which people sell you in.    From Wordnik.com.  [If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medical Essays, 1842-1882] Reference

In some places three times three persons, in others three times nine, were required for turning round by turns the axle-tree or wimble.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

In the background, mellowed by tawny shade, were the three women, Maryann Money, and Temperance and Soberness Miller, gathering up the fleeces and twisting ropes of wool with a wimble for tying them round.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference

But, when we had our tree in the evening at home, I did tell all this story to Polly and the bairns, and I gave Alice her measuring-tape, -- precious with a spot of Lycidas's blood, -- and Bertha her Sheffield wimble.    From Wordnik.com.  [If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact] Reference

D'Artagnan, to put an end to the affair, and silence the fire, which was unceasing, sent a fresh column, which penetrated like a wimble through the posts that remained solid; and he soon perceived upon the ramparts, through the fire, the terrified flight of the besieged pursued by the besiegers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After"] Reference

Among them, however, it is somewhat more artificially managed than it appears to be among the New Zealanders, inasmuch as their practice is first to make a hole in the wood with the tooth of the acouti, and then to insert in this an instrument resembling a wimble, by the rapid revolution of which the wood is set on fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Rutherford, the White Chief] Reference

Now that Henchard's whole career was pictured distinctly to his neighbours, and they could see how admirably he had used his one talent of energy to create a position of affluence out of absolutely nothing -- which was really all he could show when he came to the town as a journeyman hay-trusser, with his wimble and knife in his basket -- they wondered and regretted his fall.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

A wimble for hay-bonds being also visible in the aperture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference

A singular noise, and very soon after the worm of a wimble shot up from the planked floor on which he was standing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men] Reference

"Don't 'ee listen to such fash, lass, for what's he likely to know outside of Lady Jones's wimble-wambles and me Lor'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Desert Love] Reference

His hips, like a wimble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4] Reference

He was so wimble, and so wight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shepheardes Calendar] Reference

And what is a "Sheffield wimble?".    From Wordnik.com.  [If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact] Reference

As when a shipwright with his wimble bores 450.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odyssey of Homer] Reference

I'll hold you a groat, when you wimble his bum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2] Reference

A little awger, wimble or piercer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland.] Reference

A Sheffield wimble for the boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact] Reference

A wimble; Alfo an in/lrument to grave inftones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archaeologia Britannica, giving some account additional to what has been hitherto publish'd, of the languages, histories and customs of the original inhabitants of Great Britain: : from collections and observations in travels through Wales, Cornwal, Bas-Bretagne, Ireland and Scotland.] Reference

Wumble, wimble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glossary] Reference