[gim-lit] 
| 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. |
| 3. | to pierce with or as if with a gimlet. |
| 4. | Also, gim⋅blet [gim-blit] . Nautical. to rotate (a suspended anchor) to a desired position. |
| 5. | able to penetrate or bore through. |
gim·let (gĭm'lĭt)  (click for larger image in new window) n.
To penetrate with or as if with a gimlet. adj. Having a penetrating or piercing quality: gimlet eyes. [Middle English, from Anglo-Norman guimbelet, perhaps from Middle Dutch wimmelkijn, diminutive of wimmel, auger.] |
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