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gim⋅let

  [gim-lit]
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–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.
–verb (used with object)
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.
–adjective
5. able to penetrate or bore through.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < OF guimbelet < Gmc; cf. MD wimmel wimble

Related forms:
gim⋅let⋅y, adjective
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Word Origin & History

gimlet 
c.1420, from Anglo-Fr. guimbelet, perhaps from M.Du. wimmelkijn, dim. 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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