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Gimp

verb
1.
Walk impeded by some physical limitation or injury.  Synonyms: hitch, hobble, limp.






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"Gimp" Quotes from Famous Books



... would be much too large, I think," said Cosmo. "Perhaps a brad out of the gimp of that chair would do.—Or, stay, I know! Have you got a hair-pin ...
— Warlock o' Glenwarlock • George MacDonald

... simple but awfully destructive. The line was long enough to reach across the stream. At one end was a heavy stone, at the other a short stake cut sharp, and driven into the bank well under the water. At intervals of four feet along the line short pieces of fine gimp were fastened, ending in hooks baited alternately with lob-worms and gudgeon. Tom complimented his companion on the killing ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... shoe-buckles, ruffled shirts and queues, a brass bound mahogany chiffonier, with brass handles and tall brass feet representing cat claws, stood in one corner; and across the top was stretched a rusty purple velvet strip, bordered with tarnished gilt gimp and fringe, a fragment of the cover which belonged to the harp on which General ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson



Words linked to "Gimp" :   intermittent claudication, disability of walking, walk



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