Meaning of gimble | Babel Free

Definitions

To grin or smile.

East-Anglia

Examples

“GIMBLE, v. to grin or smile. Though the g in this word is hard […] ]”

“[…] I'd pull up at the garden-gate to take a bunch of flowers to stick in my buttonhole, and get a smile from ye that seemed to gimble itself through and through my buzzum !”

“[T]wo fine powdered footmen, all yellow, and green, and gold lace, comed running to open the door [...] one of them, giving a knowing wink to the other, all the same as if they took me for a burglar comed under fictious pretences to make observations. [...] Well, they gimbled at that again. Howsomever, the sight of the money kinder brought one of them to reason, so he took me into Mr. Maplestone's room at last; […]”

“[1878, Samuel Henry Miller, Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly, The Fenland, Past and Present, iv Gimble—to grin or smile, (N.)]”

“"Now then, what are yow gimbling¹ at, young mester?" he said.”

“[…]sometimes they ‘giffle’ (fidget) or ‘gimble’ (grin) […]”

“It is gimbled such that if this is the aircraft , and this is the sensor, I can pull a maneuver, if my target is over here, and that sensor continues to stay locked on, and lases, even though I am pulling aways and leaving, it is a gimbled device .”

“Also, since the pushers are gimbled, the limb is no longer constrained to be in a fixed position. Another advantage of the DSLS is since the force can now be computer-controlled to push or pull on the subject's limb, […]”

“The sphere that permits the gimbling of the head also allows a theta rotation. With this experience a new head is designed to address TAB assembly with die attach. The gimbling feature is still desired to accommodate the non-planarity bonding surface of the substrate. Theta rotation must be prevented. The solution is a head with individual gimbling hot bar blades attached to a fixed head.”

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