— gimlety , adj.
/gim"lit/ , n.
1. a small tool for boring holes, consisting of a shaft with a pointed screw at one end and a handle perpendicular to the shaft at the other.
2. a cocktail made with gin or vodka, sweetened lime juice, and sometimes soda water.
v.t.
3. to pierce with or as if with a gimlet.
4. Also, gimblet /gim"blit/ . Naut. to rotate (a suspended anchor) to a desired position.
adj.
5. able to penetrate or bore through.
[ 1375-1425; late ME guimbelet wimmel WIMBLE ]