gimble

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Compared by the EDD to dialectal Swedish gimla (“to move the lips in an unseemly manner, to make a wry face, to move the lips awry”). Compare also North Frisian gēmeli (“to move the lips before laughing”). Nall compares Old English ginian; the hard g in this form needs explanation (its standard English descendant is yawn), though the EDD does record a variant form jimble (/ˈjɪmbəl/).

Verb

gimble (third-person singular simple present gimbles, present participle gimbling, simple past and past participle gimbled)

  1. (East Anglia) To grin or smile.
    • , vol. II, p. 131:
      GIMBLE, v. to grin or smile. Though the g in this word is hard ]
    • 1842 May, John Mills, “The Stage Coach; or The Road of Life”, in The Sporting Magazine‎, volume 15, number 145, page 241:
      I'd pull up at the garden-gate to take a bunch of flowers to stick in my buttonhole, and get a smile from ye that seemed to gimble itself through and through my buzzum !
    • 1861, Agnes Strickland, Old Friends and New Acquaintances, page 364:
      wo fine powdered footmen, all yellow, and green, and gold lace, comed running to open the door one of them, giving a knowing wink to the other, all the same as if they took me for a burglar comed under fictious pretences to make observations. Well, they gimbled at that again. Howsomever, the sight of the money kinder brought one of them to reason, so he took me into Mr. Maplestone's room at last;
    • [1878, Samuel Henry Miller, Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly, The Fenland, Past and Present, iv
      Gimble—to grin or smile, (N.)]
    • 1888, George Manville Fenn, Dick o' the Fens, page 52:
      "Now then, what are yow gimbling1 at, young mester?" he said.
      1 Grinning.
    • sometimes they ‘giffle’ (fidget) or ‘gimble’ (grin) ]

References

  1. ^ Wright, Joseph (1900) The English Dialect Dictionary‎, volume 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 614
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Modern Language Review (1964), volumes 16-17, page 268; further mentions a Sylt phrase piðer gēmelt tö lachin.
  3. ^ John Greaves Nall (1866) Nall's Glossary of East Anglian Dialect‎, published 2006, page 74

Etymology 2

Variant of gimbal.

Noun

gimble (plural gimbles)

  1. Alternative form of gimbal.
    • 1878, J. Coleman, “Agricultural Mechanics”, in Robert Hunt, editor, Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines, page 29:
      The axle which revolves carries a small bevel wheel with 46 teeth, a similar wheel in all respects, only having 2 more teeth gears into this; but owing to its being hung on a gimble joint, like a ship's compass, it does not revolve, but makes a succession of rapid serpentine vibrations, around the face of the other wheel.
    • 1958, Charles Alfonso Zweng, Helicopter Rating, page 16:
      He thus introduced a laterally- mounted one-star plate which could be tilted on a gimble ring.
    • 1988, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Proceedings - Volume 22, page 27:
      The first aerospace mechanism to utilize HOP actuators will be a gimble caging device being designed by Aeroflex Labs for a satellite to be launched in the fall of 1988.
    • 2006, Ian David Aronson, DV Filmmaking: From Start to Finish, page 60:
      In both the handheld and body-mounted versions, the sled connects to the rest of the rig through a gimble, which provides a full, flexible range of movement.

Verb

gimble (third-person singular simple present gimbles, present participle gimbling, simple past and past participle gimbled)

  1. Alternative form of gimbal.
    • 1984, Defense Department Authorization and Oversight Hearings on H. R. 5167, US:
      It is gimbled such that if this is the aircraft , and this is the sensor, I can pull a maneuver, if my target is over here, and that sensor continues to stay locked on, and lases, even though I am pulling aways and leaving, it is a gimbled device .
    • 1984, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference, IEEE ... Frontiers of Engineering and Computing in Health Care:
      Also, since the pushers are gimbled, the limb is no longer constrained to be in a fixed position. Another advantage of the DSLS is since the force can now be computer-controlled to push or pull on the subject's limb,
    • 1992, International Society for Hybrid Microelectronics, Proceedings of the 1992 International Symposium on Microelectronics, October 19-21, 1992, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California: ISHM '92 Proceedings, International Society of Hybrid, page 408:
      The sphere that permits the gimbling of the head also allows a theta rotation. With this experience a new head is designed to address TAB assembly with die attach. The gimbling feature is still desired to accommodate the non-planarity bonding surface of the substrate. Theta rotation must be prevented. The solution is a head with individual gimbling hot bar blades attached to a fixed head.

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