gimballed

Updated: May 19, 2025

What startled him was the fact that the coming train appeared to be running itself; there was no warning whistle shriek and no slackening of speed. Graham was a Scotchman, slow of speech, slow to anger, methodical to the thirty-third degree. But in an emergency his brain leveled itself like a ship's compass gimballed to hang plumb in the suddenest typhoon.

Francis Lynde - Empire Builders