girabacchino
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Italian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Lombard [Term?], altered from French vilebrequin (under the influence of girare (“to turn”)), from Middle Dutch wimmelkijn, diminutive of wimmel (“drill”).[1]
Noun[edit]
girabacchino m (plural girabacchini)
- brace (tool), brace and bit
References[edit]
- ^ girabacchino in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana