Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gimp

Gimp , adjective

[Welsh gwymp fair, neat, comely.]

Smart; spruce; trim; nice. [Obsolete or Provincial English]

Gimp , noun

[Old French guimpe, guimple, a nun's wimple, French guimpe, Old High German wimpal a veil German wimpel pennon, pendant. See Wimple, n.]

A narrow ornamental fabric of silk, woolen, or cotton, often with a metallic wire, or sometimes a coarse cord, running through it; -- used as trimming for dresses, furniture, etc.
Gimp nail, an upholsterer's small nail.

Gimp , transitive verb

To notch; to indent; to jag.