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Noun
/ˈgimlit/,
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gimlets, plural;
  1. A small T-shaped tool with a screw-tip for boring holes

  2. A cocktail of gin (or sometimes vodka) and lime juice

  1. a cocktail made of gin or vodka and lime juice
  2. auger: hand tool for boring holes
  3. Captain Lorrington "Gimlet" King, is a character created by British author, W.E. Johns, best known as the creator of Biggles and Worrals.
  4. 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".
  5. (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. ...
  6. A cocktail composed of sugar syrup, lime juice, vodka (or gin) and sometimes soda water.
  7. boring tool like small auger, but with wooden handle.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.