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Wimble-bore, -hole, n. [ME and e.m.E. wymbilles bore (14th c.), wimble-hole (1585).] A hole made by or as by a wimble or auger. — 1605-6 Welsh Forty-eight Serm. 462.
As a man in prison, there a wimble-bore where the sun shines, and he once sees the beams of the sun 1683 Reid Sc. Gard'ner (1907) 88.
Bore them [sc. wooden cases] full of auger or wimble-holes
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