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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gimbal \Gim"bal\, or Gimbals \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.
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