📚 noun • entry_id 13475
gimbal
/ˈd͡ʒɪmbəl/
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A device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped.
1934, A. E. W. Mason, “The Chronometer,” Chapter II, in Dilemmas, London: Hodder & Stoughton, He lifted the chronometer off the gimbals on which it was slung in the mahogany case a…
The lamp wriggled in its gimbals, the barometer swung in circles, the table altered its slant every moment […]
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