wimble

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various hand tools for boring holes.
动词 v.
  1. To truss (hay) with a wimble. transitive
    — “What have you been doing?” “Tending thrashing-machine and wimbling haybonds, and saying ‘Hoosh!’ to the cocks and hens when they go upon your seeds, and planting Early Flourballs and Thompson’s Wonderfuls with a dibble.”
  2. To bore or pierce, as with a wimble. transitive
    — 1692, Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, London: Lackington et al., 1820, Volume 4, p. 39, […] a foot soldier had hid himself […] and being greedy of prey, crept into the vault, and cut so much of the velvet pall that covered the great body, as he judged would hardly be missed, and wimbled also a hole thro’ the said coffin that was largest […]
形容词 adj.
  1. active; nimble obsolete
    — He was so wimble, and so wight, From bough to bough he lepped light,

词形变化

wimbles plural whimble alternative wimbles present,singular,third-person wimbling participle,present wimbled participle,past wimbled past more wimble comparative most wimble superlative

词源

词源 1
From Middle English wymble, wymbel. Compare Middle Dutch wimmel, Middle Low German wimel, wemel.
词源 2
From Middle English wimblen, from the noun (above). Compare Middle Low German wemelen.
词源 3
Related to whim.
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