gimble

Etymology 1
Compared by the EDD to dialectal. Compare also 🇨🇬. Nall compares 🇨🇬; the hard g in this form needs explanation (its standard English descendant is ), though the EDD does record a variant form jimble.

Verb

 * 1)  To grin or smile.
 * 2) * [1830,, The Vocabulary of East Anglia, vol. II, p. 131:
 * GIMBLE, v. to grin or smile. Though the g in this word is hard]
 * 1) * [1878, Samuel Henry Miller, Sydney Barber Josiah Skertchly, The Fenland, Past and Present, iv
 * Gimble—to grin or smile, (N.)]
 * 1) * 1888, George Manville Fenn, Dick o' the Fens, page 52:
 * "Now then, what are yow gimbling1 at, young mester?" he said.
 * 1 Grinning.
 * "Now then, what are yow gimbling1 at, young mester?" he said.
 * 1 Grinning.

Etymology 2
Variant of.

Verb

 * 1) * 1984, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual Conference, IEEE ... Frontiers of Engineering and Computing in Health Care:
 * Also, since the pushers are gimbled, the limb is no longer constrained to be in a fixed position. Another advantage of the DSLS is since the force can now be computer-controlled to push or pull on the subject's limb,
 * 1) * 1992, International Society for Hybrid Microelectronics, Proceedings of the 1992 International Symposium on Microelectronics, October 19-21, 1992, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California: ISHM '92 Proceedings, International Society of Hybrid, page 408:
 * The sphere that permits the gimbling of the head also allows a theta rotation. With this experience a new head is designed to address TAB assembly with die attach. The gimbling feature is still desired to accommodate the non-planarity bonding surface of the substrate. Theta rotation must be prevented. The solution is a  head with individual gimbling hot bar blades attached to a fixed head.
 * 1) * 1992, International Society for Hybrid Microelectronics, Proceedings of the 1992 International Symposium on Microelectronics, October 19-21, 1992, Moscone Center, San Francisco, California: ISHM '92 Proceedings, International Society of Hybrid, page 408:
 * The sphere that permits the gimbling of the head also allows a theta rotation. With this experience a new head is designed to address TAB assembly with die attach. The gimbling feature is still desired to accommodate the non-planarity bonding surface of the substrate. Theta rotation must be prevented. The solution is a  head with individual gimbling hot bar blades attached to a fixed head.