Gim?

[clumsy bastard]

I'm just fixing new curtains up, I'm using a "gimlet" to make holes, has anyone ever seen a full sized "Gim"?

[Bruce]

I use a doublet to look at small items.

Has anyone seen a full sized Doub?

;-)

[Owain]

Yes, it's called an auger :-)

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman guimbelet, perhaps from Middle Dutch wimmelkijn, diminutive of wimmel, auger.]

Owain

[PeterC]

I was told that 'mallet' is a small er, 'mall' - never bothered to check.

[Tim Downie]

I was very puzzled when I bought a reversing sensor kit and the instructions said to mark the holes to be drilled with a wimble. I assumed it was nonsense until I looked it up.

Anyone here use that term for a gimlet?

Tim

[The Medway Handyman]

How come if you take something apart you dismantle it, but when you put it back together you don't mantle it?

Can you be ept? Or plussed? Or capacitated? Can you travel cognito?

[Andy Champ]

Never mind Gimlet, what about Biggles?

Andy

[chrisj.doran]

I am annoyed by the fact that things are now "flammable", whereas they used to be "inflammable" (from "inflame"). Elfin safety, I suppose, but it grates. "Flammable" is actually in old dictionaries, so can't complain, but I decline to use it.

Chris

[Frank Erskine]

I suppose that molishes sense.

[PeterC]

In t'shed 'molish' is used.

ecstatic - static?

[PeterC]

ISTR that it was changed due to the ESN taking inflammable to mean 'unburnable'.

[kinslerp]

Well, if one of the parts you're putting back in/on is a mantle, you probably _do_ mantle it.

#Paul

[Bob Mannix]

You do if you are a sheddi (uk.rec.sheds)

[clumsy bastard]

such a lot of replies to an idle thought while taking a break, I'm quite gruntled now.