gimlet

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes.
2. A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice.

Verb

1. To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet).
2. (transitive) To turn round (an anchor) as if turning a gimlet.

Concepts

vrille

gimlet

vriller

Synonymes

auger

awl

drill

borer

wimble

bit

screw auger

needle

perforator

trephine

hand drill

boring tool

perforative

hand auger

handheld drill

hand boring

wood drill

drillshank

carpenter’s gimlet

solid center eyed anger

carpenter’s auger

woodworking drill

Traductions

succhiello

barrena

delgi

matkap

Handbohrer

fretboor

taladro

verruma

burgu

τρυπάνι χειροκίνητο

τριβέλι

τρυπώ με χειροτρύπανο

τζίν με λεμονάδα

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˈɡɪm.lət/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: gimlet

In summary

From Middle English gimlet etc., from Old French guinbelet, guimbelet, guibelet, probably a diminutive of the Anglo-Norman wimble, a variation of guimble (“drill”), from the Middle Low German wiemel; continued in New French as gibelet.
Cocktail either named after the tool, in reference to its penetrating effects, or British Navy surgeon Thomas Gimlette (1857–1943).