(n.) A small tool for boring holes. It has a leading screw, a grooved body, and a cross handle.
(v. t.) To pierce or make with a gimlet.
(v. t.) To turn round (an anchor) by the stock, with a motion like turning a gimlet.
Example Sentences:
(1) This was soon accompanied by other “medicinal” drinks such as the gimlet, to avoid scurvy on ship, and pink gin, which was said to help seasickness.
(2) The gimlet-eyed punter can simply enquire: "You'd put money on that, would you?"
(3) She was never off the telephone to rich potential backers and became notorious for her gimlet-eyed vetting of campaign staff.
(4) Bitcoin is a currency created years ago by an obscure hacker in the spirit of subversion, to trade goods while dodging the gimlet eye of financial regulators.
(5) A steady focus on the numbers and a demeanour so serious it can verge on the gimlet-eyed has helped.
(6) The movie Spotlight charts a 2001 investigation of sexual abuse and cover-ups in the Catholic church by the Boston Globe under the editorship of Baron, played with gimlet-minded intensity by Liev Schreiber.
(7) A variety of prosthetic techniques may be incorporated into the Gimlet system, and the implants themselves can be used in a number of locations and employed for multiple purposes.
(8) The Observer's critic singled out Rory Kinnear's "caustic, exact, gimlet-sharp prince", while the Financial Times found an unselfconscious silliness in the hero's antics.
(9) Britain's two greatest living painters spent 3 months in each other's company, Freud sitting for Hockney for four hours before he became the subject of Freud's gimlet eye for considerably longer: 120 hours.
(10) And, without wishing to take anything away from Mo Farah and other sporting heroes, such across-the-board outperformance was largely thanks to record investment, gimlet-eyed targeting and dogged planning.
(11) Goldin, best known for her gimlet portraits of friends and lovers addled by drugs or riven with Aids, has never retreated from showing sex at its most brutal and banal extremes.
(12) A drill or gimlet with a small hole in the tip was employed to bore a hole in the sternum.