Bimble vs Wimble - What's the difference?
bimble | wimble |
(chiefly, British) A gentle, meandering walk with no particular haste or purpose.
(chiefly, British, intransitive) To walk with no particular haste or purpose.
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To truss hay with a wimble.
To bore or pierce, as with a wimble.
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As nouns the difference between bimble and wimble
is that bimble is a gentle, meandering walk with no particular haste or purpose while wimble is any of various hand tools for boring holes.As verbs the difference between bimble and wimble
is that bimble is to walk with no particular haste or purpose while wimble is to truss hay with a wimble.As an adjective wimble is
active; nimble.bimble
English
Noun
(bimbles)Synonyms
* strollVerb
Surf, snow and city in one break," The Observer (UK), 28 Jan. (retrieved 18 Jan. 2009):
- Check-in ran like clockwork and after unpacking, we bimbled off to the cycle centre, hired two bikes and a kiddy trailer for the boys and set off to get our bearings.
Synonyms
* amble, dander, roam, saunter, stroll, wanderwimble
English
See also
* auger * gimletVerb
(wimbl)- A foot soldier wimbled also a hole through said coffin.