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Wimpled vs Wimbled - What's the difference?

wimpled | wimbled |

As an adjective wimpled

is wearing a wimple.

As a verb wimbled is

past tense of wimble.

wimpled

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Wearing a wimple.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1853, author=Various, title=Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Two are figures of cross-legged knights in chain armour and surcoats: one is a female figure wimpled . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1868, author=Sophie May, title=Dotty Dimple at Her Grandmother's, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=She put on a white wrapper of Susy's, and, looking like a wimpled nun, followed Polly down stairs. }}

    wimbled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wimble)

    • wimble

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of various hand tools for boring holes.

    • See also

    * auger * gimlet

    Verb

    (wimbl)
  • To truss hay with a wimble.
  • To bore or pierce, as with a wimble.
  • * Wood
    • A foot soldier wimbled also a hole through said coffin.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) active; nimble
    • (Spenser)