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gimlet

/gim-lit/US // ˈgɪm lɪt //UK // (ˈɡɪmlɪt) //

小金库,金手指,小金鱼,吉莫特

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.
    • : a cocktail made with gin or vodka, sweetened lime juice, and sometimes soda water.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to pierce with or as if with a gimlet.
    • : Also gim·blet [gim-blit]. /ˈgɪm blɪt/. Nautical. to rotate to a desired position.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : able to penetrate or bore through.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • 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.