gimlet 的 3 个定义
- 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.
- a cocktail made with gin or vodka, sweetened lime juice, and sometimes soda water.
- to pierce with or as if with a gimlet.
- Also gim·blet [gim-blit]. /ˈgɪm blɪt/. Nautical. to rotate to a desired position.
- able to penetrate or bore through.
gimlet 近义词
等同于 auger
等同于 drill
更多gimlet例句
- Murdoch was known to personally track all of the editorial budgets with a gimlet eye.
- There are reasons, in other words, for hard-shell conservatives to give him the gimlet eye.
- What the baron recoils from in horror, others discern with a gimlet eye to the main social chance.
- However, with the gimlet eyes of a new blogger, I detect ominous portents of change.
- Gorenflot went off quite happy, and then Chicot made, with a gimlet, a hole in the partition at about the height of his eye.
- To broach a pipe, pierce it with an auger or gimlet, four fingers- breadth over the lower rim, so that the dregs may not rise.
- He stood, shivering, with gimlet flames in his eyes, his fingers twitching restlessly.
- Tom had broken his gimlet and three extra ones which fortunately some one had brought.
- I will not have thee strike thy gimlet into these weak vessels; prick thine enemies, Ralph.