Definition of Gimbel
Gim"bal (?), or Gim"bals (&?;),
n. [See Gimmal, n.] A
contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all
directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's
compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level,
when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists
of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of
the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it
can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first.
Gimbal joint (Mach.), a universal
joint embodying the principle of the gimbal. -- Gimbal
ring, a single gimbal, as that by which the cockeye of
the upper millstone is supported on the spindle.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A device for suspending something, such as a ship's compass, so that it will remain level when its support is tipped.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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