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Raregimp
The correct spelling is gimp.
How to pronounce gimp
/ɡɪmp/
nounIPA: /ɡɪmp/
Say it like: Jim-p
The correct spelling is gimp. A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furni…
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Meanings
noun
- 1.A narrow ornamental fabric or braid of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc. Also guimpe.
- 2.Any coarse or reinforced thread, such as a glazed thread employed in lacemaking to outline designs, or silk thread used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire.
- 3.The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself.
- 4.(chiefly North Eastern US) Gumption
- 5.A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet.
verb
- 1.(of yarn, cord, thread, etc.) To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped.
- 2.To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves.
- 3.To limp; to hobble.
- 4.To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.
adjective
- 1.(Scotland and N England) Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.
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