gimble

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡɪmbəl/ Rhymes: -ɪmbəl Homophone: gimbal === 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) (East Anglia) To grin or smile. [1830, Robert Forby, The Vocabulary of East Anglia[3], vol. II, p. 131: GIMBLE, v. to grin or smile. Though the g in this word is hard […] ] [1878, Samuel Henry Miller, Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly, The Fenland, Past and Present, iv Gimble—to grin or smile, (N.)] ==== References ==== === Etymology 2 === Variant of gimbal. ==== Noun ==== gimble (plural gimbles) Alternative form of gimbal. ==== Verb ==== gimble (third-person singular simple present gimbles, present participle gimbling, simple past and past participle gimbled) Alternative form of gimbal. 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. === Anagrams === Gimbel