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Definition of Gimping
1. gimp [v] - See also: gimp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gimping
Literary usage of Gimping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"Towards the middle of the seventeenth century, when it was discovered that by
twisting or gimping round a gut string a fine silver wire its weight could be ..."
2. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"Draw with art the graceful sack Ornament it well with gimping, Flowers, furbelows,
and crimping Let of ruffes many a row Guard her ..."
3. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1854)
"... the whole is then bound round in the manner called gimping; and of this wick,
twice the length of the intended candle is twisted double round a rod, ..."
4. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"... the whole is then bound round in the manner called gimping ; and of this wick,
twice the length of the intended candle is twisted double round a rod, ..."
5. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1849)
"Draw with art the graceful sack ; Ornament it well with gimping, Flounces,
furbelows, and crimping ; Let of ruffles many a row, Guard her elbows, ..."
6. Dynamo-electric Machinery: A Manual for Students of Electrotechnics by Silvanus Phillips Thompson (1896)
"iIr Bl« gimping-pieces are external clamps .;jj si jface is turned up \Jed or
otherwise p slip between it Con- •ors by means of ..."
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