Word of the Day: Catachrestical
A brass ring by which a sea compass is suspended in its box, by means of which the card is kept in a horizontal position, notwithstanding the rolling of the ship.
A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first.
A borer; small instrument with a pointed screw at the end, for boring holes in wood by turning. It is applied only to small instruments; a large instrument of the like kind is called an auger.
In seamen's language, to turn round an anchor by the stock; a motion resembling that of the turning of a gimblet
A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.
1. To pierce or make with a gimlet.
2. To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.
Consisting of links.
1. Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.
Movement or machinery.
A kind of silk twist or edging.
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1 KJV and 1 BSB verses contain “gim”
The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.