GIMP

ontua

ontuminen 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 (m).
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.
1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber 2007, p. 87:

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

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

You haven't got gimp enough to, any more than you could smash the rest of that pint, instead of swallowing it. You're a weakling...

When people put a lot on what their folks used to do, it always means they haven't got gimp enough left to do anything themselves.

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

...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.

They are prettier cut and gimped in the shape of wheels.

This active material consists of a tape of pure lead, which is gimped whilst cold with deep grooves and ridges...

Each hole is filled by a rosette of pure lead made by rolling up lead strip or tape which has been gimped or corrugated.

In some cases the leather has to be decorated with perforations while its edges may be serrated or gimped.

She walks with a gimp in one leg, which is why she is called Madame La Gimp...

...Flat-wheel Walter...who is called by this name because he walks with a gimp on one side...