Synonyms for gimlet

Grammar : Noun

Spell : gim-lit

Phonetic Transcription : ˈgɪm lɪt

Top 10 synonyms for gimlet

Other synonyms for the word gimlet

Définition of gimlet

Origin : boring-tool, mid-14c., gymbelette, from Anglo-French guimbelet (French gibelet), perhaps from Middle Dutch wimmelkijn (with substitute of French diminutive suffix), diminutive of wimmel "auger, drill." The meaning "cocktail made with gin or vodka and lime juice" is first attested 1928, presumably from its "penetrating" effects on the drinker.

As in auger : noun drill
As in drill : noun tool for boring

Example sentences :

He could have moved it now for nothing short of a gimlet or a red-hot wire.
Extract from : « Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit » by Charles Dickens

With a gimlet I bored a hole in the floor, through which I passed a piece of string.
Extract from : « Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood » by George MacDonald

She's got eyes like gimlet holes, and her hair's the color of tow.
Extract from : « Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille » by Emile Zola

Then he quietly drew a gimlet from his pocket and bored a hole in the door.
Extract from : « A Nest of Spies » by Pierre Souvestre

He was no doubt the head doctor, for his glance was as sharp and piercing as a gimlet.
Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola

O'Moy trembled, and his glance avoided the other's gimlet eye.
Extract from : « The Snare » by Rafael Sabatini

Just for a moment he looked into the gimlet eyes of the other.
Extract from : « The Twins of Suffering Creek » by Ridgwell Cullum

Cullison was looking at him with the steel eyes 56 that bored into him like a gimlet.
Extract from : « Crooked Trails and Straight » by William MacLeod Raine

From the centre of this bed a gimlet hole pierces the board.
Extract from : « The Electric Bath » by George M. Schweig

They bored a hole in it with a gimlet, and sucked the rum out through a straw.
Extract from : « Frank Oldfield » by T.P. Wilson

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