wimble
To truss (hay) with a wimble.
transitive
“Tending thrashing-machine and wimbling haybonds, and saying ‘Hoosh!’ to the cocks and hens when they go upon your seeds, and planting Early Flourballs and Thompson’s Wonderfuls with a dibble.”
“What have you been doing?”To bore or pierce, as with a wimble.
transitive
[…] a foot soldier had hid himself […] and being greedy of prey, crept into the vault, and cut so much of the velvet pall that covered the great body, as he judged would hardly be missed, and wimbled also a hole thro’ the said coffin that was largest […]
1692, Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses, London: Lackington et al., 1820, Volume 4, p. 39,
Where it comes from
From Middle English wimblen, from the noun (above). Compare Middle Low German wemelen.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry wimble (CC BY-SA 4.0).