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gimlet::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | auger, screw auger, wimble |
| Type of | drill |
gimlet::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | cocktail |
Examples of gimlet
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Nothing like the gimlet gaze of death to drop the volume and still the masses.
From the washingtonpost.com
In one skit, Suzanne, a very leggy blonde, sits down at a bar and orders a gimlet.
From the time.com
The Obama team would do well to scrutinize this campaign promise with a gimlet eye.
From the ocregister.com
Besides casting a gimlet eye on the companies they fund, VCs are also slowing down.
From the businessweek.com
A visit to Manhattan's Chatwal hotel puts Emma John in the mood for a gimlet.
From the guardian.co.uk
The gimlet bit is intended to be used in a hand brace for drilling into wood.
From the en.wikipedia.org
They were a grizzled, gimlet-eyed bunch, but Jarboe was used to the scrutiny.
From the nytimes.com
Up to half of these gimlet-eyed workers will have given their services free.
From the economist.com
Friday morning, and the fashion world's gimlet eye is firmly trained on the capital.
From the telegraph.co.uk
- A cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice
- Auger: hand tool for boring holes
- Captain Lorrington "Gimlet" King, is a character created by British author, W.E. Johns, best known as the creator of Biggles and Worrals.
- A gimlet is a hand tool for drilling small holes, mainly in wood, without splitting. It was defined in Joseph Gwilt's Architecture (1859) as "a piece of steel of a semi-cylindrical form, hollow on one side, having a cross handle at one end and a worm or screw at the other".
- (Gimlets) A Gimlet is a small, sharp cocktail invented in the 1930s, named after a small, sharp hand tool used to bore holes into wood and tap into barrels. It is made using gin or vodka and lime juice, which are shaken together and poured into a glass filled with broken ice. ...
- A cocktail composed of sugar syrup, lime juice, vodka (or gin) and sometimes soda water.
- Boring tool like small auger, but with wooden handle.
- Hand tool used for drilling small holes in wood; consists of a metal shaft with a spiral cutting flute at one end and a wooden handle at the other fixed 90 defrees to the shaft such that it forms a T-shaped tool.
- A small hand tool, of ancient origin, whose handle is perpendicular to a screw point, and which is used for boring small holes (less than 6mm diameter) in timber.
