Acronym meanings of GIMLET. Acronym & meanings of GIMLET

To perforate or penetrate, as a solid body, by turning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank.

Wimble

A gimlet.

Gimlet

v. t.

To pierce or make with a gimlet.

Bore

v. i.

To make a hole or perforation with, or as with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool; as, to bore for water or oil (i. e., to sink a well by boring for water or oil); to bore with a gimlet; to bore into a tree (as insects).

Gimblet

n. & v.

See Gimlet.

Gimleted

imp. & p. p.

of Gimlet

Gimleting

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Gimlet

Vyce

A kind of clamp with gimlet points for holding a barrel head while the staves are being closed around it.

Piercel

A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.

Auger

A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.

Trepan

A crown-saw or cylindrical saw for perforating the skull, turned, when used, like a bit or gimlet. See Trephine.

Gimlet

A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.

Trephine

An instrument for trepanning, being an improvement on the trepan. It is a circular or cylindrical saw, with a handle like that of a gimlet, and a little sharp perforator called the center pin.

Gimlet

v. t.

To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.

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