wimble

/ˈwɪm.bəl/

Etymology

Perhaps a variant of Wimbley or Wimple.

name

  1. A surname.

noun

  1. Any of various hand tools for boring holes.

verb

  1. To truss (hay) with a wimble.““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.“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 […]”

adj

  1. active; nimble“He was so wimble, and so wight, From bough to bough he lepped light,”