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Definition of Gimleted
1. gimlet [v] - See also: gimlet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gimleted
Literary usage of Gimleted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Story of a Soldier's Life by Garnet Wolseley Wolseley (1903)
"One of those near me, of whose nerves the other correspondents had no high opinion,
gimleted me with his eyes as I walked ^backwards and forwards in a ..."
2. Crusts: A Settler's Fare Due South by Laurence James Kennaway (1874)
"... his mind is augur'd, and gimleted, and chisel'd with doubt and bother, and
his brains, and eyes, and head are sun- worn, and wind-wearied, and done-up. ..."
3. Master Humphrey's Clock by Charles Dickens (1841)
"... who, gimlet in hand, had projected an attack upon at least a score of dusty
casks, and who stood transfixed, or morally gimleted as it were, ..."
4. Letters of Travel, 1892-1913: 1892-1913 by Rudyard Kipling (1920)
"... There's them that can't see yit," and he gimleted me with a fierce eye.
"An" all the while, fortunes is made—piles is made—right under our noses. ..."
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