gimp

1. noun /ɡɪmp/

a) 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 .

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

b) 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.

Love them and encourage them, but put some gimp into them.

See Also: guimpe

2. verb /ɡɪmp/

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

It consists of seventy fine spun cotton threads, gimped or tied around with thread by a machine similar to that for wrapping bonnet wire.

b) To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves.

...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.

Syn: cripple, disabled, dweeb, nerd, geek, gump, spod, dork

See Also: gimpy

3. adjective /ɡɪmp/

Neat; trim; delicate; slender; handsome; spruce; elegant.