gimlet

Meanings

1. A small screw-tipped tool for boring holes.
2. A cocktail, usually made with gin and lime juice.

1. To pierce or bore holes (as if using a gimlet).
2. To turn round (an anchor) as if turning a gimlet.

Etymology

From Middle English gimlet etc., from Old French guinbelet, guimbelet, guibelet, probably a diminutive of the Anglo-Norman wimble, a variation of guimble (“drill”), from the Middle Low German wiemel; continued in Modern French as gibelet. Cocktail either named after the tool, in reference to its penetrating effects, or British Navy surgeon Thomas Gimlette (1857–1943).