gimmal

[ gim-uhl, jim-uhl ]

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noun

any of various joints for transmitting motion between rotating parts, as in a timepiece.

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Word History and Origins

1520–30; alteration of gemel (originally in plural) twin, Middle English gemelles (< Old French gemeles ) < Latin gemellus (singular), diminutive of geminus twin

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Example Sentences

In the 17th century we find numerous allusions to gimmal rings (variously spelt).

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Nares, in his Glossary, observes that the name gimmal was preserved to rings made triple, or even more complimentary.

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Such rings were known as Gemel or Gimmal rings, the word being derived from the Latin gemellus, twins.

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