Small tools with a screw point and cross handle used for boring holes, or plural of gimlet cocktails made with alcohol and lime juice.
From Old French 'guimbelet,' the word may derive from a distortion of 'wimbil' or similar Germanic terms meaning to bore or drill. The cocktail meaning developed as a named drink in the 19th-20th centuries.
The same word refers to both a carpentry tool and a drink—the gimlet cocktail was supposedly named after the tool's sharp, penetrating qualities, making a drink that really hits you!
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