F&W…reveal
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
…in which our visitor looks up “gimlet” in the old Funk & Wagnalls.
And finds out that over a century ago, when this edition of F&W was published, it was a common hand tool rather like a T-shaped cork puller, but used for boring—from an old word for drill.
And not a gin/vodka-and-lime-juice drink.