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gimlet

[ gim-lit ]

noun

  1. 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.
  2. a cocktail made with gin or vodka, sweetened lime juice, and sometimes soda water.


verb (used with object)

  1. to pierce with or as if with a gimlet.
  2. Also 驳颈尘路产濒别迟 [] Nautical. to rotate (a suspended anchor) to a desired position.

adjective

  1. able to penetrate or bore through.

gimlet

/ 藞伞瑟尘濒瑟迟 /

noun

  1. a small hand tool consisting of a pointed spiral tip attached at right angles to a handle, used for boring small holes in wood
  2. a cocktail consisting of half gin or vodka and half lime juice
  3. a eucalyptus of W Australia having a twisted bole
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to make holes in (wood) using a gimlet
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. penetrating; piercing (esp in the phrase gimlet-eyed )
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 驳颈尘顎僱别迟路测 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of gimlet1

1375鈥1425; late Middle English < Old French guimbelet < Germanic; compare Middle Dutch wimmel wimble
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of gimlet1

C15: from Old French guimbelet, of Germanic origin, see wimble
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No detail is too small for Caro鈥檚 gimlet eye, which is currently trained on finishing Volume 5.

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With a gimlet eye and a surprisingly girlish laugh, Vera is cantankerous, impatient, intensely private, unapologetically disheveled and utterly glorious.

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Watching it all with a gimlet eye, Mary 鈥 his old friend who鈥檚 still helplessly in love with him 鈥 takes Frank to task for sacrificing his theatrical partnership with Charley for hollow Hollywood success.

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He鈥檚 also the bartender who introduced me to what became my signature cocktail, the vodka gimlet.

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His Napoleon views the world with a gimlet eye and firmly compressed lips.

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