Definitions for gimlet

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gimlet gim·let

Spelling: [gim-lit]

IPA: /ˈgɪm lɪt/

Gimlet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in gimlet (egilmt).

Definitions for gimlet

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.

adjective

1. able to penetrate or bore through.

verb (used with object)

1. to pierce with or as if with a gimlet.
2. Also, gimblet [gim-blit] /ˈgɪm blɪt/ (Show IPA). Nautical. to rotate (a suspended anchor) to a desired position.

Origin of gimlet

1375-1425; late Middle English Old French guimbelet Germanic; compare Middle Dutch wimmel wimble

Examples for gimlet

Murdoch was known to personally track all of the editorial budgets with a gimlet eye.

He could have moved it now for nothing short of a gimlet or a red-hot wire.

There are reasons, in other words, for hard-shell conservatives to give him the gimlet eye.

She's got eyes like gimlet holes, and her hair's the color of tow.

With a gimlet I bored a hole in the floor, through which I passed a piece of string.

He was no doubt the head doctor, for his glance was as sharp and piercing as a gimlet.

O'Moy trembled, and his glance avoided the other's gimlet eye.

Then he quietly drew a gimlet from his pocket and bored a hole in the door.

However, with the gimlet eyes of a new blogger, I detect ominous portents of change.

What the baron recoils from in horror, others discern with a gimlet eye to the main social chance.