gimp

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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
To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating , etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped

low strings later than the mid-seventeenth century are commonly gimped (wound with fine wire on a moderate core) to allow sufficient tension without excessive mass or stiffness.

Gumption; spirit; ambition; vigor; pep

When people put a lot on what their folks used to do, it always means they haven't got gimp enough left to do anything themselves.

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

I'm a fisher of men and my gimp is doing a saltarello over every body of water to fetch up what it may.

To limp; to hobble
A person who is lame due to a crippling of the legs or feet
A limp or a limping gait

Flat-wheel Walter...who is called by this name because he walks with a gimp on one side.

A name-calling word, generally for a person who is perceived to be inept, deficient or peculiar
A sexual submissive, almost always male, dressed generally in a black leather suit. See Gimp (sadomasochism) in Wikipedia
Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant
To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves

In some cases the leather has to be decorated with perforations while its edges may be serrated or gimped.

A crippled leg
The plastic cord used in the plaiting and knotting craft Scoubidou (lanyard making); or, the process itself
{n} a silk twist or lace, edging, trimming
A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc
To notch; to indent; to jag
Smart; spruce; trim; nice
spirit; ambition; vigor; pep; gumption
{i} narrow cord made of silk or other material; vigor, courage, spirit; person with a limp, lame person; limp (Slang)
A woven ribbon used in upholstering to cover the heads of tacks
General (GNU) Image Manipulation Program
GNU Image Manipulation Program Free open source software for tasks such as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring
An image creation and photo retouching package - extremely powerful Application currently confined to Linux although ports to Windows and OS/2 are ongoing
Silk thread, used as a fishing leader, protected from the bite of fish by a wrapping of fine wire
A narrow flat braid or rounded cord of fabric used for trimming. Also called guimpe, guipure. Spirit; pep
disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet
Image manipulation program
A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, wool, or cotton, often stiffened with metallic wire or coarse cord running through it, used as trimming for dresses, curtains, furniture, etc
A sexual submissive, almost always male, dressed generally in a black leather suit
(GNU Image Manipulation Program) - A popular image editor/paint program for GNU/Linux
A name-calling word (cf. dweeb, nerd, geek, gump), generally for a person who is perceived to be inept or deficient
gimped
Wrapped or wound tightly with a second length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, leaving the core yarn straight and protected (). Also, generally, wrapped or twisted with string or wire ()
gimped
Adorned with gimp (decorative trim); edged or embroidered
gimped
Jagged, as a jagged or uneven edge or outline; notched, edged with serrations or grooves; nicked, dented

The leaves... are slightly “gimped,” and this gives them an apparently wavy outline.

gimped
(also gimped up, gimped out) Crippled, injured; damaged as to awkwardly impede function

Then he wheeled him around and began pushing him lickety-split down the hall, the chair's rickety wheels squealing like a gimped grocery cart.

gimped
Simple past tense and past participle of gimp
gimpy
limping, lame, with crippled legs

Old guy downstairs, with long hair and a gimpy leg, handed me this yere and gimme fi' cents to fetch it up here to you, stated the messenger.

gimped
past of gimp
gimping
present participle of gimp
gimps
third-person singular of gimp
gimps
plural of gimp
gimpy
{s} handicapped, lame (Slang)
gimp

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    Etymology

    () C.1660, perhaps from Dutch gimp or French guimpe, and likely from Old French guimpre, a variant of guipure, a kind of trimming. * Regional "gumption" sense c.1905, possibly influenced by the reinforced nature of gimp cord, or possibly with influence from the words gumption and gumph.
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