A narrow openwork insertion, gimp or braiding, with parallel sides, used for joining two breadths of linen, instead of sewing them directly the one to the other.
The word is now applied to a decorative edging or trimming, especially a gimp or braid.
But to stick a neeld in, and make the gimp run that way, and fresh bind the bottom,--good lack!
To tell the truth, sir, you've knocked the gimp all out of me!
I don't claim to be any great shakes of a tailor; but I hope there's gimp enough in me yet to do a job like this in a decent manner.
First, I've been to see all the gay fashions from Town, Which our favorite Miss Gimp for the spring has had down.
They wanted to ask a question but did not know just how, when Gimp saved them the trouble.
Gimp of Hinkee Dee, as they went with the others to get a closer view of the airship.
Hinkee Dee of Gimp when the former came back the next day from the cattle-driving trip.
But you, nor none of us, didn’t solve the cattle mystery,” Gimp said.
But thoughGimp almost allowed himself to be persuaded he finally backed out, amid the jeers of his fellows.
As the automobile, carefully and slowly driven by Ned, while Bob and Gimp rode beside it, came within view of the Square Z buildings they saw a horseman riding toward them.
But the cowboys were all incredulous in general, though Gimp and the Parson had some idea of the theories involved.
Gimp shook the reins and galloped off, making sure Lizzie, his horned toad pet, was safe in his pocket.
Gimp threw his saddle over his own mount that was having a “breather” after dinner, pulled tight the girths and swung himself up with a peculiar hitch that, as much as had his reputed ability to dance, had gained him his nickname.
Parson, you and Gimp ride up and see what that outfit is.
This here is Sam Jones, otherwise known as the Parson ’cause he’s so suburban like, and Tod Henderson never answers to anything but Gimp because he’s such a good dancer.
Gimp told the Parson, briefly, how Jerry had been hurt, and added something about Hinkee Dee which Ned and Bob could not quite catch.
Shaking their heads over the puzzle, Gimp and the Parson rode back with the others.
But as he came on again, with no thought of giving up his plan, Gimp was ready for him.
You’ve got two invalids to look after, Doc,” remarked the foreman, who had remained behind with the boys when Gimp and the Parson had ridden off after the other cowboys who had already started the chase.
A dress of black corded silk trimmed with rose-colored gimp opened over a petticoat of gray satin, the costume subsequently worn by Amigo, the handsome singer, in I Puritani.
Them long legs is dead weight, an' a neck like that ain't got no gimp in it," Billy would grunt disparagingly as he cleaned out the loft of a morning.
Faix, an' if he does I bet the Little Warhorse will take the gimp out av her an' her runnin' mate.
The rowel of the spur had so wound itself among the gimp cords in those few moments, that separation was likely to be a matter of time.
It was immediately apparent that the military man's spur had become entangled in the gimp which decorated the skirt of her dress.
It is now often used for lace made with a tape, but it applies more correctly, perhaps, to gimp work.
A decorative edging or trimming, especially gimp or braid.
An wha will lace my middle gimp Wi the new made London ban?
Her father shoed her fu fair foot, Her mother glovd her han; Her sister lac'd her middle gimp Wi the new made London ban.
With a pike, of course, the question is a different one, as he cuts the line with his teeth, if you give him the chance and nothing but gimp is of any service.
Her ladyship was wonderfully made up, and looked her best, for Monsieur Hector Launay from Upper Gimp Street had had an interview with her that morning.
When this pattern is worked for a gimp and not a fringe, the threads are made to end in knots, as explained in fig.
Very pretty laces, fringes, gimp headings and the like can be made in this kind of crochet work.
Patterns in several colours may likewise be knotted into gimp headings of this kind.
Cut 8 double threads of the length the gimp is to be.
The thickness of the gut used for trolling should of course be regulated, as in fly-fishing, by the size of fish you expect to catch, and a few traces made of gimp for pike and ferox should always be in the troller's stock.
He is usually caught by trolling either natural or artificial minnow; and the tackle should be mounted on gimp and fixed to a strong line, and plenty of it.
You finish by laying a neat silk gimp all round and over all the joinings.
The shawl is finished by a fringe set on all round, and sometimes by a colored gimp laid on over the joinings.
She was made aware that it had fallen upon her ears, though heard unconsciously, when Serena Gimp caught her by the sleeve in the church porch.
Mrs. Parley Gimp called, one day, a week or two later, when the minister was out.
This time Mrs. Gimp struck, while, as she thought, the iron was hot.
The hook should be small but strong, withgimp snell; Sproat hooks, No.
But if the gimp snell gave way, how under the sun did you ever get him aboard, Jack?
I could see right then and there," Jack continued, quietly, "that the gimp had been twisted until it was ready to break away.
Of course there are no fish," said Rob wearily as he drew in his baitless line, the strong gimphook being quite bare.
Look," he said, holding up the fragment of gimpattached by its loop to the line.
Nickolay Timofeitch lays several kinds of gimp before Polinka; she looks at the trimmings languidly and begins bargaining over them.
I want a bead corselet, too, with gimp buttons," says Polinka, bending over thegimp and sighing for some reason.
He tried to whirl her in some crazy dance, but Gimp was swinging along the slushy walk on his crutches.
Still, Gimp Hines had finished rigging his bubb, minutes ahead of Frank, or anybody else.
Gimp and Frank were just about talked out, by then.
Passing close to Mars, which is lined up orbitally along our route," Gimp put in.
Now he looked at Gimp Hines, riding the spinning rim of his ring with his good and bad leg dangling, an expectant, quizzical, half-worried look on his freckled face.
Gimp Hines and David Lester were waiting inside the stellene reception dome when Nelsen and Ramos landed lightly at the port on their own feet, with no more braking assistance than their own shoulder-ionics.
Even Gimp Hines rode behind Ramos in some very wild gyrations, though he didn't attempt to guide the scooter, himself.
Gimp growled, tossing his crutches on a workbench littered with scraps of color-coded wire, and hopping forward on the one leg that had grown to normal size.
That the others would also pick Gimp was evident at once.
In the open rounds pass a double cord of black silk, finished off with small balls of black silk gimp and gold; and on either side of the pouch fasten one of these same balls with two tassels, one crimson and one black.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gimp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
