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Definition of Fimble
1. n. Light summer hemp, that bears no seed.
Definition of Fimble
1. Noun. the male hemp plant ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fimble
1. the male hemp plant [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fimble
Literary usage of Fimble
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"fimble. (1) A wattled chimney, n'est. (2) To fumble ; to do anything imperfectly.
Ver. dial. It occurs in the Schoole of Good Manners, 1629. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"To fimble, to touch lightly and frequently with the ends of the fingers. ...
and this perhaps has led to the supposition that fimble is a corruption of ..."
3. Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser (1878)
"fimble, or Female Hemp, so called, I suppose, because it falls to the Female's
... The fimble Hemp is that which is ripe soonest and fittest for spinning, ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1878)
"fimble, or Female Hemp, so called, I suppose, because it falls to the Female's
... The fimble Hemp is that which is ripe soonest and fittest for spinning, ..."
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